Lear — unisex name

What the Data Says About Lear

The Social Security Administration has registered 491 babies named Lear between 1886 and 1966, spanning 81 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lear currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1966. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 23 babies received it in a single year. Lear is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 36 additional births since 1997.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lear performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 137 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Lear shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Louisiana and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Lear in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lear in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 491 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.