Meaning not yet researched.
Legend: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,862 in 2025. Its best rank was #118 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #118 in 2021; #193 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Legend in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#193 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #118.
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Legend: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,862 boys in 2025. Peak: #118 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 3,186 (2021).
In 2025, 1,862 US boys were named Legend, making it the 193rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 36 places from #157 in 2024. That is 426 fewer than the 2,288 boys named Legend in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #118, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 3,186. For comparison, it was #391 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Legend in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 10 babies. In all, 26,773 US babies have been given the name, 3.6% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 15,888 babies named Legend.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 22,515 US boys were named Legend; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 3,186. In 2025 that was about 1 in 917 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Legend ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #46 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 7 states (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Legynd, Legand and Legennd are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Legynd (162), Legand (50), Legennd (19).
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 Legend in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 10 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 46 | #46 | #455 |
| Louisiana | 67 | #59 | #223 |
| District of Columbia | 12 | #70 | — |
| Hawaii | 12 | #74 | #94 |
| Georgia | 136 | #80 | #249 |
| South Carolina | 59 | #87 | #229 |
| Alabama | 56 | #93 | #435 |
| Nevada | 28 | #111 | #321 |
| North Carolina | 101 | #119 | #396 |
| Delaware | 9 | #119 | — |
| Florida | 141 | #153 | #258 |
| Virginia | 58 | #155 | #301 |
| Arkansas | 23 | #164 | #520 |
| Oklahoma | 29 | #173 | #193 |
| Ohio | 77 | #173 | #332 |
| Tennessee | 57 | #173 | #469 |
| Michigan | 58 | #176 | #520 |
| Pennsylvania | 72 | #180 | #370 |
| Missouri | 38 | #190 | #287 |
| Wisconsin | 33 | #190 | #444 |
| Maryland | 32 | #193 | #434 |
| Illinois | 61 | #195 | #394 |
| Indiana | 43 | #197 | #402 |
| Texas | 180 | #216 | #426 |
| New Jersey | 44 | #218 | #529 |
| New York | 85 | #231 | #543 |
| Connecticut | 15 | #231 | — |
| Nebraska | 10 | #259 | — |
| Massachusetts | 21 | #281 | #595 |
| Arizona | 28 | #285 | #510 |
| Kansas | 12 | #313 | #634 |
| West Virginia | 6 | #317 | #317 |
| Kentucky | 16 | #326 | #447 |
| California | 110 | #331 | #455 |
| Iowa | 9 | #387 | #619 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #402 | #441 |
| Oregon | 9 | #422 | #527 |
| Colorado | 14 | #431 | #747 |
| Minnesota | 13 | #440 | #492 |
| Washington | 14 | #519 | #530 |
| Utah | 6 | #667 | #492 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,833 | 1,862 | #193 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,339 | 2,288 | #157 |
| 2023 | 47 | #3,406 | 2,505 | #145 |
| 2022 | 69 | #2,567 | 2,901 | #132 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,946 | 3,186 | #118 |
| 2020 | 67 | #2,568 | 2,852 | #127 |
| 2019 | 70 | #2,525 | 2,578 | #150 |
| 2018 | 80 | #2,289 | 1,734 | #216 |
| 2017 | 76 | #2,394 | 1,461 | #255 |
| 2016 | 70 | #2,550 | 1,148 | #310 |
| 2015 | 52 | #3,197 | 815 | #391 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,758 | 523 | #534 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,901 | 327 | #718 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,239 | 263 | #833 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,938 | 215 | #929 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,121 | 214 | #942 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,643 | 191 | #1,020 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,713 | 163 | #1,124 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,605 | 94 | #1,643 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,353 | 65 | #2,050 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,744 | 88 | #1,579 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,278 | 45 | #2,469 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,928 | 31 | #3,082 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,718 | 40 | #2,494 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,829 | 40 | #2,461 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,328 | 30 | #2,959 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,500 | 41 | #2,252 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,242 | 21 | #3,560 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,043 | 17 | #3,985 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,111 | 17 | #3,944 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,832 | 29 | #2,597 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,236 | 11 | #5,300 |
| 1993 | — | — | 10 | #5,620 |
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).