Leam
Leam was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,741 among boys’ names; 353 Americans have been recorded with it since 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leam by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leam?
#5,741 among boys’ names, 2025
Leam fell from #4,984 in 2015 to #5,741 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.9 to 9.4 per million.
41 babies in 2024, the peak
Leam peaked in 2024, when 41 boys were given it, #3,022 among boys’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,741 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,022 | 23.8 |
| 2023 | 25 | #4,285 | 14.6 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,516 | 13.2 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,252 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,792 | 11.6 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,279 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 30 | #3,665 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 19 | #5,034 | 10.3 |
| 2016 | 22 | #4,560 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #4,984 | 9.9 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,982 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 26 | #3,913 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,395 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,491 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,377 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,545 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,963 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 5 | #13,573 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,919 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Leam a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leam has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leam: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leam, and how old are they?
An estimated 350 Americans named Leam and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 12. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 424 people named Leam (31 women and girls, 393 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 213 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Leam rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,231 babies since 1880, Leam is the second most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 24 babies (67%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Leam
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Leam and names like it
- Compare Leam and LemBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLeam peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leam since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Leam.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Leam alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.