boys:
224 births since 1921
#4362 (5th percentile)
overall:
224 births since 1921
#7515 (3rd percentile)
The name Lj is the #7,515 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 224 recorded births since 1921. This represents the 2.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,362 (4.8% percentile) for all time with 224 births since 1921.
Lj first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1921 (first recorded for boys in 1921). Birth data for Lj is available in 29 out of the 103 years between 1921 and 2023. 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, Lj reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #875) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Lj is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #905 (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lj".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Lj.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Lj", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Lj.
Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Lj. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.9% confident that Lj is pronounced as EHL-JAY, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ljay, at 20.6% confidence, with 1 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Lj? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Lj. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Lj, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like EH1 L JH EY1) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker