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Ledger: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 541 in 2025. Its best rank was #503 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #503 in 2024; #554 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ledger in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#554 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #503.
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Ledger: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 541 boys in 2025. Peak: #503 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 608 (2024).
In 2025, 541 US boys were named Ledger, making it the 554th most common boys’ name of the year, down 51 places from #503 in 2024. That is 67 fewer than the 608 boys named Ledger in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #503, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 608. For comparison, it was #1,171 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ledger in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1923 with 5 babies. In all, 5,001 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 3,090 babies named Ledger.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,970 US boys were named Ledger; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 608. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,157 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ledger ranked highest in North Dakota in 2025, at #99 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC).
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US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 12 | #99 | — |
| West Virginia | 11 | #179 | — |
| Iowa | 19 | #214 | — |
| Montana | 6 | #215 | — |
| Utah | 22 | #241 | #221 |
| Kentucky | 21 | #260 | — |
| Oklahoma | 18 | #274 | #500 |
| Nebraska | 9 | #280 | — |
| Kansas | 13 | #287 | — |
| Mississippi | 11 | #303 | — |
| Missouri | 22 | #309 | — |
| Tennessee | 28 | #318 | #656 |
| Arkansas | 11 | #321 | #383 |
| Louisiana | 16 | #326 | — |
| Alabama | 17 | #329 | — |
| Indiana | 22 | #347 | — |
| Wisconsin | 15 | #365 | — |
| Ohio | 28 | #391 | — |
| Idaho | 6 | #409 | — |
| North Carolina | 21 | #494 | #1,240 |
| Georgia | 22 | #494 | #965 |
| Michigan | 16 | #530 | #1,179 |
| Oregon | 6 | #571 | — |
| Colorado | 9 | #602 | — |
| Washington | 10 | #666 | — |
| Minnesota | 7 | #685 | — |
| Virginia | 10 | #711 | — |
| Arizona | 8 | #754 | #965 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #774 | — |
| Texas | 33 | #820 | #1,720 |
| Florida | 17 | #871 | #1,628 |
| Illinois | 8 | #979 | — |
| New York | 12 | #1,025 | — |
| California | 17 | #1,180 | #2,164 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 541 | #554 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,643 | 608 | #503 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,416 | 519 | #560 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,790 | 479 | #594 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,489 | 487 | #575 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,395 | 425 | #631 |
| 2019 | — | — | 271 | #833 |
| 2018 | — | — | 267 | #833 |
| 2017 | — | — | 212 | #975 |
| 2016 | — | — | 161 | #1,181 |
| 2015 | — | — | 159 | #1,171 |
| 2014 | — | — | 179 | #1,081 |
| 2013 | — | — | 170 | #1,091 |
| 2012 | — | — | 88 | #1,723 |
| 2011 | — | — | 71 | #1,956 |
| 2010 | — | — | 75 | #1,908 |
| 2009 | — | — | 95 | #1,661 |
| 2008 | — | — | 61 | #2,198 |
| 2007 | — | — | 24 | #4,198 |
| 2006 | — | — | 20 | #4,616 |
| 2005 | — | — | 6 | #10,928 |
| 2004 | — | — | 12 | #6,370 |
| 2003 | — | — | 13 | #5,748 |
| 2002 | — | — | 9 | #7,410 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,527 |
| 1926 | — | — | 8 | #3,275 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,592 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).