Legend
Legend was given to 1,862 boys in 2025, #193 among boys’ names; 26,773 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 26,600 Americans named Legend and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 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 Legend by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Legend mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Legend is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Legend?
#193 among boys’ names, 2025
Legend rose from #391 in 2015 to #193 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.43 to 1.1 per 1,000.
3,243 babies in 2021, the peak
Legend peaked in 2021, when 3,243 babies were given it (3,186 boys, #118 among boys’ names). The 1,883 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 58% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,862 | #193 | 1.1 |
| 2024 | 2,288 | #157 | 1.3 |
| 2023 | 2,505 | #145 | 1.5 |
| 2022 | 2,901 | #132 | 1.7 |
| 2021 | 3,186 | #118 | 1.8 |
| 2020 | 2,852 | #127 | 1.7 |
| 2019 | 2,578 | #150 | 1.4 |
| 2018 | 1,734 | #216 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 1,461 | #255 | 0.79 |
| 2016 | 1,148 | #310 | 0.60 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 815 | #391 | 0.43 |
| 2014 | 523 | #534 | 0.27 |
| 2013 | 327 | #718 | 0.17 |
| 2012 | 263 | #833 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 215 | #929 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 214 | #942 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 191 | #1,020 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 163 | #1,124 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 94 | #1,643 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,049 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 88 | #1,577 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 45 | #2,465 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 31 | #3,078 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 40 | #2,490 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 40 | #2,457 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 30 | #2,953 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 41 | #2,249 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 21 | #3,556 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,980 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,938 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 29 | #2,592 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,294 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,614 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Legend a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 26,773 Americans recorded as Legend, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 21 girls and 1,862 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Legend: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Legend, and how old are they?
26,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 26,773 Americans ever recorded as Legend. The median Legend alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 8.
The 2020 Census counted 8,448 people named Legend (525 women and girls, 7,923 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,535 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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 | 90 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,780 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 24,700 |
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 Legend born?
The states with the most babies named Legend are Texas, Florida and Georgia, with 25% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 180 | #216 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 141 | #153 | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 136 | #80 | 1.9× |
| California | 110 | #331 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 101 | #119 | 1.4× |
| New York | 85 | #231 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 77 | #173 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 72 | #180 | 1.0× |
| Louisiana | 67 | #59 | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 61 | #195 | 0.9× |
Where Legend is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Legend is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1993 it was given 2.3 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 boys’ 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 Legend 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 26,985 babies since 1880, Legend is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,883 of their 1,898 babies (99%), 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 Legend
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 Legend and names like it
- Compare Legend and LegyndBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLegend peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Legend since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Legend.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Legend alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.