girls:
150 births since 1892
#5566 (3rd percentile)
boys:
666 births since 1889
#3921 (14th percentile)
overall:
816 births since 1889
#6923 (11th percentile)
The name Lemmie is the #6,923 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 816 recorded births since 1889. This represents the 10.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,921 (14.4% percentile) for all time with 666 births since 1889. For girls, it ranks #5,566 (2.6% percentile) for all time with 150 births since 1892.
Lemmie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1889 (1889 for boys and 1892 for girls). Birth data for Lemmie is available in 72 out of the 135 years between 1889 and 2023 (66 years for boys and 24 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Lemmie has been given predominantly to boys, with 81.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Lemmie were boys.
For boys, Lemmie reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #504) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 85 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1988.
For girls, Lemmie reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #600) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1892, with 22 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Lemmie ranks #942 for girls (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 25.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lemmie".
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