Leavy
Leavy was last recorded in 1977, when 5 babies were given it; 175 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leavy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leavy?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,423, in 1977; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1912, the peak
Leavy peaked in 1912, when 15 babies were given it (9 boys, #1,825 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 5 | #6,423 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,749 | 3.4 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,755 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,158 | 2.4 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,117 | 2.5 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,522 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,997 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,181 | 4.0 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,243 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,889 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 5 | #3,824 | 3.5 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,813 | 4.7 |
| 1932 | 9 | #2,752 | 8.6 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,525 | 10.2 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,949 | 5.4 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,272 | 7.2 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,692 | 6.2 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,052 | 5.5 |
| 1922 | 11 | #2,725 | 10.1 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,723 | 6.4 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,514 | 5.1 |
| 1918 | 10 | #2,799 | 9.9 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,787 | 6.5 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,534 | 7.6 |
| 1912 | 9 | #1,825 | 20.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Leavy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 175 Americans recorded as Leavy, 3% are girls and 97% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Leavy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leavy, and how old are they?
An estimated 41 Americans named Leavy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 129 people named Leavy (23 women and girls, 106 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 52 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 221,762 babies since 1880, Leavy is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 9,864 babies recorded by SSA was a Leavy (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Leavy
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 Leavy and names like it
- Compare Leavy and LeviBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sLeavy peaked in 1912.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leavy since 1910.
- The top names of 1912The year the most babies were named Leavy.
- Names starting with LMost given first.