Leib
Leib was given to 29 boys in 2025, #3,814 among boys’ names; 448 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leib by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leib?
#3,814 among boys’ names, 2025
Leib rose from #6,912 in 2015 to #3,814 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 6.3 to 17.0 per million.
29 babies in 2025, the peak
Leib peaked in 2025, when 29 boys were given it, #3,814 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 21 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #3,814 | 17.0 |
| 2024 | 21 | #4,803 | 12.2 |
| 2023 | 25 | #4,286 | 14.6 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,376 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,681 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,150 | 10.4 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,634 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,552 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,936 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,968 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #6,912 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,278 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,859 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,582 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,445 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,236 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,856 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 10 | #8,055 | 4.9 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,634 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,315 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 13 | #6,075 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,324 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,743 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,404 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,259 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,815 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,914 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,263 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,811 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,432 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,259 | 2.5 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,651 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,971 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,316 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,870 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,546 | 3.7 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,402 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,879 | 2.8 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,456 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,270 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Leib a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leib has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leib: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leib, and how old are they?
An estimated 436 Americans named Leib and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 5 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 317 people named Leib (2 women and girls, 315 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 311 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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 Leib born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 20 | #734 | 8.6× |
Where Leib is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Leib is most over-represented in New York: since 1958 it was given 8.6 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 Leib with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Leib
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 Leib and names like it
- Compare Leib and GianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leib since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Leib.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Leib alive today were born 2013-2025.
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