girls:
102 births since 1932
#5614 (2nd percentile)
boys:
4.5k births since 1880
#1804 (61st percentile)
overall:
4.6k births since 1880
#4030 (48th percentile)
The name Len is the #4,030 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,599 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 47.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 47.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,804 (60.7% percentile) for all time with 4,497 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,614 (1.8% percentile) for all time with 102 births since 1932.
Len has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1932 for girls). Birth data for Len is available in 140 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (140 years for boys and 15 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 Len has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Len reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 17.2% percentile (ranked #544) with 56 births per million. The name was most common in 1885, with 121 births per million (ranked 4.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Len ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 5.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Len reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #779) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1964, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1972.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Len".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Len. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Len is pronounced as lehn, which has 1 syllables.
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