boys:
281 births since 1881
#4305 (6th percentile)
overall:
281 births since 1881
#7458 (4th percentile)
The name Less is the #7,458 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 281 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 3.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,305 (6.1% percentile) for all time with 281 births since 1881.
Less first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (first recorded for boys in 1881). Birth data for Less is available in 41 out of the 77 years between 1881 and 1957. 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.
For boys, Less reached its peak popularity in 1900, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #245) with 80 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 80 births per million (ranked 3.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1957.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Less".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Less. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Less is pronounced as lehs, which has 1 syllables.
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