Girls' name · since 1880
Lemma
Lemma has 262 recorded births since 1880 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1918 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #17,143 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 262
- born since 1880
- 1910s
- peak decade
Lemma sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 262 recorded since 1880.
Lemma has 262 recorded births among girls since 1880, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1910s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1880 to 1948.
- #17,143 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 262 born since 1880
- 1910s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Lemma ranks #17,143 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 262 born since 1880, peaking in the 1910s.
- #17,143 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 262
- born since 1880
- 1910s
- peak decade
Lemma's 262 recorded births place it above 76.27% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Lemma's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Lemma splits its recorded history at 1916: 53% of all births land in the more recent half, 47% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1880 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1918 peak of 13 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Lemma popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1880–1948
- Peak year (1918)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 69 years of records
Lemma by decade
1910s is the heaviest window (82 births, 31% of the file).
1910s was Lemma's strongest decade.
82 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 31% of all-time use.
Lemma births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1880s 21
1880s
21 births
- 1890s
1890s
34 births
- 1900s 32
1900s
32 births
- 1910s
1910s
82 births
- 1920s
1920s
62 births
- 1930s 10
1930s
10 births
- 1940s 21
1940s
21 births
What this shows Peak: 1910s at 82 births (31% of all-time use).
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- Lemma's decade-level peak was the 1910s (82 total births); usage has since declined to 21 in the 1940s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Lemma: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1880–1948 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Lemma draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.