Leman
Leman was last recorded in 1997, when 5 babies were given it; 625 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Leman mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Leman is “a female given name from Arabic”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Leman?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,178, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1937, the peak
Leman peaked in 1937, when 23 boys were given it, #1,428 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 5 | #10,178 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,707 | 2.9 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,011 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,605 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,364 | 2.7 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,840 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,148 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,486 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,427 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,113 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 8 | #4,037 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,931 | 7.4 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,139 | 2.7 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,953 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,892 | 5.2 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,132 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,856 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,856 | 3.0 |
| 1961 | 9 | #3,006 | 4.2 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,318 | 2.3 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,445 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,153 | 3.7 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,160 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,862 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,634 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 11 | #2,443 | 5.7 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,566 | 3.2 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,714 | 5.1 |
| 1948 | 10 | #2,542 | 5.7 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,247 | 3.8 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,798 | 3.1 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,328 | 7.4 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,258 | 8.1 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,857 | 5.6 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,827 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,016 | 5.7 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,591 | 7.8 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,311 | 5.4 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,048 | 11.7 |
| 1937 | 23 | #1,428 | 21.6 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,380 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,092 | 12.5 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,670 | 8.7 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,645 | 9.1 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,245 | 6.7 |
| 1931 | 15 | #1,969 | 14.4 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,705 | 9.1 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,528 | 10.2 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,466 | 10.8 |
| 1927 | 17 | #1,996 | 15.1 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,030 | 8.1 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,138 | 13.4 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,010 | 15.0 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,534 | 10.9 |
| 1922 | 17 | #1,994 | 15.6 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,680 | 20.0 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,400 | 12.2 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,016 | 9.2 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,225 | 13.8 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,730 | 20.5 |
| 1916 | 16 | #1,901 | 18.0 |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,691 | 21.2 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,651 | 22.9 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,065 | 9.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Leman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leman has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leman, and how old are they?
An estimated 201 Americans named Leman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (32% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 50 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 357 people named Leman (57 women and girls, 300 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 247 born in the U.S. The Census count is 45% above 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 6,295 babies since 1880, Leman is the fourth most given (9.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 30 babies recorded by SSA was a Leman (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 Leman
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 Leman and names like it
- Compare Leman and LeamonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sLeman peaked in 1937.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Leman: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1937The year the most babies were named Leman.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Leman alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.