Lemmie
Lemmie was last recorded in 2023, when 10 babies were given it; 816 Americans have been recorded with it between 1889 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lemmie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lemmie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,013, in 1988; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 1917, the peak
Lemmie peaked in 1917, when 28 babies were given it (20 boys, #1,673 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 10 | #10,020 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,682 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,667 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 5 | #8,013 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 11 | #2,558 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 6 | #3,749 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 5 | #4,379 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 9 | #2,970 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 10 | #2,776 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 9 | #3,007 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | under 5 | 6 | #3,880 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 8 | #3,164 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 8 | #3,154 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 10 | #2,681 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 7 | #3,287 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 7 | #3,253 | |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,839 | 13 | #2,200 |
| 1950 | under 5 | 7 | #3,196 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 12 | #2,288 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 10 | #2,543 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 12 | #2,316 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 6 | #3,370 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 5 | #3,573 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 11 | #2,259 | |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,456 | 8 | #2,858 |
| 1942 | under 5 | 11 | #2,331 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 15 | #1,864 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 8 | #2,776 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 12 | #2,122 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 11 | #2,270 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 5 | #3,814 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 15 | #1,848 | |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,007 | 10 | #2,471 |
| 1934 | under 5 | 10 | #2,488 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 8 | #2,878 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 15 | #1,965 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 21 | #1,568 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 18 | #1,785 | |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,959 | 7 | #3,414 |
| 1928 | under 5 | 15 | #2,111 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 17 | #1,997 | |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,410 | 14 | #2,260 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,240 | 14 | #2,265 |
| 1924 | under 5 | 17 | #2,011 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 16 | #2,077 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 16 | #2,105 | |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,537 | 14 | #2,321 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,800 | 18 | #1,929 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,646 | 7 | #3,593 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,085 | 13 | #2,335 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,539 | 20 | #1,673 |
| 1916 | under 5 | 10 | #2,650 | |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,290 | 10 | #2,546 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,413 | 11 | #2,050 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,454 | 11 | #1,750 |
| 1912 | under 5 | 9 | #1,826 | |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,339 | 9 | #1,243 |
| 1910 | under 5 | 5 | #1,739 | |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,983 | under 5 | |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,229 | under 5 | |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,092 | 6 | #1,191 |
| 1905 | under 5 | 6 | #1,175 | |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,032 | under 5 | |
| 1903 | under 5 | 11 | #720 | |
| 1902 | under 5 | 5 | #1,236 | |
| 1900 | under 5 | 11 | #822 | |
| 1898 | under 5 | 5 | #1,229 | |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,721 | 5 | #1,190 |
| 1893 | under 5 | 5 | #1,125 | |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,559 | 5 | #1,170 |
| 1891 | under 5 | 5 | #1,053 | |
| 1889 | under 5 | 5 | #1,044 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Lemmie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 816 Americans recorded as Lemmie, 18% are girls and 82% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lemmie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lemmie, and how old are they?
An estimated 173 Americans named Lemmie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (21% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 63 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 272 people named Lemmie (54 women and girls, 218 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 206 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 950 babies since 1880, Lemmie is the most given (86% of them).
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 Lemmie
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 Lemmie and names like it
- Compare Lemmie and LemmyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sLemmie peaked in 1917.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lemmie since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Lemmie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lemmie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.