girls:
300 births since 1913
#5416 (5th percentile)
boys:
1.1k births since 1882
#3526 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1882
#6372 (18th percentile)
The name Lemon is the #6,372 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,371 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 17.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,526 (23.1% percentile) for all time with 1,071 births since 1882. For girls, it ranks #5,416 (5.2% percentile) for all time with 300 births since 1913.
Lemon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for boys and 1913 for girls). Birth data for Lemon is available in 101 out of the 142 years between 1882 and 2023 (91 years for boys and 13 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 Lemon has been given predominantly to boys, with 78.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Lemon were boys. Interestingly, until around 2014, the name was more popular for boys (98.5% boys from 1882 to 2013), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 2014 to 2023).
For boys, Lemon reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 4.6% percentile (ranked #514) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 1902, with 113 births per million (ranked 4.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1992.
For girls, Lemon reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 4.8% percentile (ranked #891) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 28 births per million (ranked 4.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lemon ranks #911 for girls (3.8% percentile) with 23 births per million, which is 84.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lemon".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Lemon is pronounced as LEH-muhn, which has 2 syllables.
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