Lelan
Lelan was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,644 among boys’ names; 924 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lelan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lelan?
#8,644 among boys’ names, 2025
Lelan fell from #4,985 in 2015 to #8,644 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.9 to 5.3 per million.
42 babies in 2007, the peak
Lelan peaked in 2007, when 42 boys were given it, #2,847 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,644 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,798 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,637 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 12 | #7,061 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,176 | 14.3 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,959 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 26 | #4,062 | 14.5 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,681 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,430 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 28 | #3,848 | 14.8 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #4,985 | 9.9 |
| 2014 | 23 | #4,333 | 12.0 |
| 2013 | 29 | #3,626 | 15.3 |
| 2012 | 25 | #4,080 | 13.2 |
| 2011 | 28 | #3,745 | 14.7 |
| 2010 | 23 | #4,314 | 12.0 |
| 2009 | 32 | #3,442 | 16.1 |
| 2008 | 27 | #3,883 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 42 | #2,847 | 20.2 |
| 2006 | 33 | #3,280 | 16.1 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,273 | 10.5 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,027 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,170 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,411 | 3.1 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,462 | 3.7 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,278 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,706 | 2.9 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,604 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,363 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,801 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,865 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,425 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,112 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,847 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,757 | 2.8 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,798 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,227 | 2.7 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,969 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,757 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,426 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,890 | 4.3 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,680 | 4.9 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,659 | 2.9 |
| 1952 | 8 | #2,994 | 4.1 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,228 | 3.7 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,917 | 4.5 |
| 1949 | 11 | #2,403 | 6.2 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,174 | 7.4 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,096 | 8.0 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,177 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,411 | 4.2 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,590 | 7.8 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,374 | 9.0 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,797 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,841 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,337 | 10.6 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,509 | 5.8 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,300 | 11.1 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,602 | 5.8 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,458 | 6.4 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,130 | 7.4 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,011 | 14.4 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,319 | 7.1 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,657 | 9.9 |
| 1925 | 17 | #1,972 | 15.2 |
| 1924 | 10 | #2,935 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,075 | 8.2 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,570 | 11.0 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,445 | 11.8 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,071 | 5.6 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,974 | 6.1 |
| 1918 | 6 | #3,966 | 5.9 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,412 | 7.6 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,711 | 6.7 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,551 | 12.2 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,663 | 11.7 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,438 | 14.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lelan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lelan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 77 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lelan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lelan, and how old are they?
An estimated 648 Americans named Lelan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (70% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 673 people named Lelan (54 women and girls, 619 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 595 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Lelan rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 193,371 babies since 1880, Lelan is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 2,660 babies (<1%), again the fourth 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 Lelan
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 Lelan and names like it
- Compare Lelan and LeonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLelan peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lelan since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Lelan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lelan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.