Meaning not yet researched.
Legacy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 429 in 2025. Its best rank was #434 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #434 in 2021; #662 in 2025. About 64% of babies named Legacy in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#662 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #434.
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Legacy: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 429 girls in 2025. Peak: #434 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 725 (2021).
In 2025, 429 US girls were named Legacy, making it the 662nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 52 places from #610 in 2024. That is 64 fewer than the 493 girls named Legacy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #434, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 725. For comparison, it was #1,421 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 244 US boys were named Legacy, making it the 957th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1 place from #958 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 237 boys named Legacy in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #709, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 370. For comparison, it was #2,267 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Legacy in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 10 babies. In all, 8,483 US babies have been given the name, 68% of them girls and 32% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 5,290 babies named Legacy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,845 US girls were named Legacy; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 725. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,747 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Legacy ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #287 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Legaci (1,213 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Legacie, Legacii and Legacee are summarised on this page.
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We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Legacie (348), Legacii (192), Legacee (191), Legacey (23).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Legacy in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 21 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 36 | #287 | #1,020 |
| Louisiana | 12 | #384 | — |
| Ohio | 26 | #439 | #871 |
| North Carolina | 25 | #448 | #1,335 |
| Arkansas | 7 | #465 | — |
| Michigan | 18 | #473 | — |
| Virginia | 16 | #504 | #1,327 |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #524 | #842 |
| Illinois | 19 | #534 | #1,799 |
| Alabama | 9 | #556 | #901 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #596 | — |
| Indiana | 11 | #598 | — |
| Kentucky | 7 | #622 | #600 |
| Iowa | 5 | #635 | — |
| Kansas | 5 | #638 | — |
| South Carolina | 7 | #655 | — |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #670 | — |
| Texas | 45 | #678 | #1,877 |
| Tennessee | 11 | #682 | — |
| New York | 22 | #747 | #2,123 |
| Florida | 21 | #784 | #1,758 |
| Maryland | 6 | #795 | — |
| New Jersey | 9 | #812 | — |
| Colorado | 6 | #858 | — |
| Missouri | 6 | #873 | — |
| California | 31 | #925 | #1,691 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #931 | — |
| Arizona | 6 | #984 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #990 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,070 | #1,184 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 429 | #662 | 244 | #957 |
| 2024 | 493 | #610 | 237 | #958 |
| 2023 | 559 | #541 | 295 | #832 |
| 2022 | 655 | #484 | 355 | #732 |
| 2021 | 725 | #434 | 370 | #709 |
| 2020 | 612 | #500 | 316 | #762 |
| 2019 | 491 | #616 | 273 | #828 |
| 2018 | 347 | #790 | 183 | #1,082 |
| 2017 | 280 | #945 | 119 | #1,444 |
| 2016 | 254 | #1,043 | 77 | #1,913 |
| 2015 | 163 | #1,421 | 59 | #2,267 |
| 2014 | 106 | #1,902 | 34 | #3,278 |
| 2013 | 80 | #2,320 | 31 | #3,463 |
| 2012 | 77 | #2,417 | 29 | #3,675 |
| 2011 | 55 | #3,078 | 22 | #4,446 |
| 2010 | 70 | #2,601 | 35 | #3,214 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,153 | 17 | #5,456 |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,412 | 8 | #9,520 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,038 | — | — |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,836 | — | — |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,927 | — | — |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,671 | — | — |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,750 | — | — |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,569 | 5 | #11,754 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,672 | — | — |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,602 | — | — |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,682 | — | — |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,265 | — | — |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,545 | — | — |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,423 | — | — |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,109 | — | — |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,504 | — | — |
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).