Lemar
Lemar was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,307 among boys’ names; 1,895 Americans have been recorded with it since 1900 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,380 Americans named Lemar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (73% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 26 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lemar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lemar?
#6,307 among boys’ names, 2025
Lemar rose from #8,436 in 2015 to #6,307 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.7 to 8.2 per million.
55 babies in 1979, the peak
Lemar peaked in 1979, when 55 boys were given it, #1,250 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,307 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,703 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,375 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,494 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,350 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,857 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,393 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,195 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,526 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 19 | #5,054 | 10.0 |
Every recorded year (115)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #8,436 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,614 | 8.3 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,502 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,330 | 12.1 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,841 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,380 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,454 | 8.6 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,948 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,132 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,789 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,749 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,800 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 24 | #3,682 | 12.1 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,405 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,546 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,934 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,238 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 18 | #3,941 | 9.4 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,981 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,300 | 7.9 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,506 | 10.0 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,715 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 19 | #3,444 | 9.7 |
| 1992 | 26 | #2,712 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 31 | #2,318 | 15.3 |
| 1990 | 25 | #2,663 | 12.2 |
| 1989 | 44 | #1,744 | 22.0 |
| 1988 | 47 | #1,563 | 24.6 |
| 1987 | 33 | #1,919 | 17.7 |
| 1986 | 40 | #1,630 | 21.7 |
| 1985 | 44 | #1,517 | 23.8 |
| 1984 | 36 | #1,646 | 19.9 |
| 1983 | 35 | #1,675 | 19.5 |
| 1982 | 37 | #1,632 | 20.4 |
| 1981 | 41 | #1,512 | 22.9 |
| 1980 | 44 | #1,441 | 24.7 |
| 1979 | 55 | #1,250 | 31.9 |
| 1978 | 51 | #1,266 | 31.1 |
| 1977 | 26 | #1,932 | 15.8 |
| 1976 | 17 | #2,561 | 10.8 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,812 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,622 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 15 | #2,565 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 11 | #3,075 | 6.8 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,077 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 20 | #2,034 | 10.8 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,973 | 5.6 |
| 1968 | 25 | #1,600 | 14.4 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,702 | 5.7 |
| 1966 | 17 | #1,932 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 14 | #2,224 | 7.5 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,378 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 13 | #2,370 | 6.4 |
| 1962 | 13 | #2,318 | 6.3 |
| 1961 | 15 | #2,196 | 7.1 |
| 1960 | 13 | #2,382 | 6.1 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,161 | 3.7 |
| 1958 | 13 | #2,321 | 6.1 |
| 1957 | 14 | #2,238 | 6.5 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,718 | 4.7 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,880 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 18 | #1,863 | 8.8 |
| 1953 | 13 | #2,241 | 6.6 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,041 | 7.7 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,567 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 15 | #1,979 | 8.4 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,715 | 5.1 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,917 | 4.6 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,248 | 3.8 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,814 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,496 | 6.7 |
| 1944 | 16 | #1,789 | 11.7 |
| 1943 | 18 | #1,740 | 12.6 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,330 | 8.0 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,795 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 17 | #1,718 | 14.7 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,375 | 9.0 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,269 | 9.9 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,410 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 8 | #2,755 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 15 | #1,882 | 14.4 |
| 1934 | 24 | #1,410 | 23.2 |
| 1933 | 16 | #1,800 | 16.1 |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,816 | 16.3 |
| 1931 | 16 | #1,894 | 15.4 |
| 1930 | 16 | #1,932 | 14.6 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,689 | 9.3 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,474 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,089 | 14.2 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,036 | 14.4 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,377 | 11.6 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,419 | 11.5 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,665 | 6.4 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,410 | 7.4 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,370 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,289 | 13.2 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,443 | 12.2 |
| 1918 | 10 | #2,800 | 9.9 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,360 | 13.0 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,476 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,545 | 11.8 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,049 | 16.8 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,026 | 17.6 |
| 1912 | 8 | #1,973 | 18.6 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,248 | 39.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lemar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lemar has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 115 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lemar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lemar, and how old are they?
1,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 73% of the 1,895 Americans ever recorded as Lemar. The median Lemar alive today is 40 years old; half are between 26 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 1,132 people named Lemar (51 women and girls, 1,081 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,398 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 44 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 142 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 313 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 475 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 257 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 151 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,094 babies since 1880, Lemar is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 27 babies (52%), 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 Lemar
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 Lemar and names like it
- Compare Lemar and LeomarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLemar peaked in 1979.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lemar since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Lemar.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lemar alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.