girls:
26 births since 2016
#5690 (0th percentile)
boys:
86 births since 2011
#4500 (2nd percentile)
overall:
112 births since 2011
#7627 (1st percentile)
The name Lemmy is the #7,627 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 112 recorded births since 2011. This represents the 1.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,500 (1.8% percentile) for all time with 86 births since 2011. For girls, it ranks #5,690 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 26 births since 2016.
Lemmy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2011 (2011 for boys and 2016 for girls). Birth data for Lemmy is available in 10 out of the 13 years between 2011 and 2023 (9 years for boys and 4 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 Lemmy has been given predominantly to boys, with 76.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Lemmy were boys.
For boys, Lemmy reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #904) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Lemmy reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #937) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for girls has remained relatively stable. Currently, Lemmy ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 88.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lemmy".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Lemmy is pronounced as LEH-mee, which has 2 syllables.
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