Legacy
Legacy is given to both girls and boys: 429 girls and 244 boys were given it in 2025 (#662 among girls’ names and #957 among boys’, #932 among all names counting both); 8,483 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,430 Americans named Legacy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Legacy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Legacy?
#662 among girls’ names, 2025
Legacy rose from #1,421 in 2015 to #662 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.09 to 0.27 per 1,000.
1,095 babies in 2021, the peak
Legacy peaked in 2021, when 1,095 babies were given it (725 girls, #434 among girls’ names). The 673 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 61% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| 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 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 163 | #1,421 | 59 | #2,266 |
| 2014 | 106 | #1,902 | 34 | #3,276 |
| 2013 | 80 | #2,320 | 31 | #3,461 |
| 2012 | 77 | #2,417 | 29 | #3,672 |
| 2011 | 55 | #3,077 | 22 | #4,444 |
| 2010 | 70 | #2,601 | 35 | #3,213 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,152 | 17 | #5,453 |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,411 | 8 | #9,513 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,036 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,834 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,922 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,667 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,745 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,565 | 5 | #11,747 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,668 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,597 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,678 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,261 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,540 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,418 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,104 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,498 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Legacy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,483 Americans recorded as Legacy, 68% are girls and 32% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Legacy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Legacy, and how old are they?
8,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 8,483 Americans ever recorded as Legacy. The median Legacy alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 8.
The 2020 Census counted 2,544 people named Legacy (1,830 women and girls, 714 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,404 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 35 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 653 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,740 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Legacy born?
The states with the most babies named Legacy are Texas, Georgia and California, with 29% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 65 | #678 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 62 | #287 | 2.0× |
| California | 45 | #925 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 41 | #448 | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 37 | #439 | 1.3× |
| New York | 35 | #747 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 34 | #784 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 27 | #534 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 24 | #504 | 1.1× |
| Alabama | 22 | #556 | 1.0× |
Where Legacy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Legacy is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1994 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Legacy with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 10,427 babies since 1880, Legacy is the most given (81% of them). In 2025 it was given to 673 of their 840 babies (80%), again the most given.
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 Legacy
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 Legacy and names like it
- Compare Legacy and LegaciBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLegacy peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Legacy since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Legacy.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Legacy alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.