girls:
28 births since 1968
#5688 (0th percentile)
boys:
80 births since 1972
#4506 (2nd percentile)
overall:
108 births since 1968
#7631 (1st percentile)
The name Leshon is the #7,631 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 108 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 1.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,506 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 80 births since 1972. For girls, it ranks #5,688 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 28 births since 1968.
Leshon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (1968 for girls and 1972 for boys). Birth data for Leshon is available in 15 out of the 29 years between 1968 and 1996 (11 years for boys and 5 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 Leshon has been given predominantly to boys, with 74.1% of all recorded births being male. In 1996, 100.0% of babies named Leshon were boys. Interestingly, until around 1974, the name was more popular for girls (66.7% girls from 1968 to 1973), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 1974 to 1996).
For boys, Leshon reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #655) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1996.
For girls, Leshon reached its peak popularity in 1968, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #746) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1968, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1973.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leshon".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Leshon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 34.4% confident that Leshon is pronounced as leh-SHAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEH-shuhn, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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