Lemon
Lemon was last recorded in 2025, when 30 babies were given it; 1,430 Americans have been recorded with it between 1882 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lemon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lemon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,260, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
50 babies in 2021, the peak
Lemon peaked in 2021, when 50 babies were given it (0 boys, #0 among boys’ names). The 30 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,615 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,724 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,747 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,928 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,237 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,580 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,537 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,152 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,266 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,078 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (103)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,481 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,591 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 5 | #9,260 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 5 | #9,039 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 5 | #7,655 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 5 | #6,629 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 7 | #4,324 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 5 | #5,431 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 6 | #4,701 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 5 | #5,140 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 7 | #3,790 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 5 | #4,483 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 5 | #4,305 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 6 | #3,754 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 8 | #3,133 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 7 | #3,470 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 10 | #2,782 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 6 | #3,878 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 6 | #3,881 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 5 | #4,319 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 5 | #4,271 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 5 | #4,306 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 13 | #2,327 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 10 | #2,682 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 13 | #2,268 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 10 | #2,635 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 7 | #3,254 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 6 | #3,568 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 6 | #3,524 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 14 | #2,074 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 10 | #2,544 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 7 | #3,249 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 11 | #2,346 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 11 | #2,196 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 11 | #2,260 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 13 | #2,125 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 12 | #2,214 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 17 | #1,728 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 13 | #2,043 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 6 | #3,313 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 10 | #2,411 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 18 | #1,664 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 9 | #2,546 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 20 | #1,569 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 24 | #1,411 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 13 | #2,052 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 14 | #2,056 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 20 | #1,619 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 28 | #1,381 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 17 | #1,897 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 25 | #1,499 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 30 | #1,362 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 22 | #1,636 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 17 | #1,973 | |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,772 | 26 | #1,514 |
| 1923 | under 5 | 18 | #1,910 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 23 | #1,619 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 25 | #1,531 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 25 | #1,530 | |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,195 | 22 | #1,604 |
| 1918 | under 5 | 25 | #1,480 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 23 | #1,509 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 20 | #1,624 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 20 | #1,581 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 19 | #1,421 | |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,455 | 20 | #1,161 |
| 1912 | under 5 | 14 | #1,318 | |
| 1911 | under 5 | 7 | #1,474 | |
| 1910 | under 5 | 12 | #963 | |
| 1909 | under 5 | 6 | #1,381 | |
| 1908 | under 5 | 10 | #922 | |
| 1907 | under 5 | 8 | #1,054 | |
| 1906 | under 5 | 9 | #891 | |
| 1904 | under 5 | 9 | #850 | |
| 1903 | under 5 | 7 | #967 | |
| 1902 | under 5 | 15 | #569 | |
| 1901 | under 5 | 8 | #817 | |
| 1900 | under 5 | 10 | #875 | |
| 1899 | under 5 | 8 | #830 | |
| 1898 | under 5 | 11 | #686 | |
| 1897 | under 5 | 8 | #829 | |
| 1896 | under 5 | 9 | #803 | |
| 1895 | under 5 | 6 | #1,036 | |
| 1894 | under 5 | 6 | #1,025 | |
| 1893 | under 5 | 6 | #975 | |
| 1892 | under 5 | 10 | #720 | |
| 1891 | under 5 | 5 | #1,054 | |
| 1890 | under 5 | 7 | #850 | |
| 1887 | under 5 | 10 | #613 | |
| 1886 | under 5 | 9 | #669 | |
| 1885 | under 5 | 8 | #737 | |
| 1883 | under 5 | 5 | #976 | |
| 1882 | under 5 | 7 | #801 |
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 Lemon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,430 Americans recorded as Lemon, 25% are girls and 75% boys. In 2025 it went to 30 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lemon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lemon, and how old are they?
An estimated 550 Americans named Lemon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (38% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 63. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 431 people named Lemon (165 women and girls, 266 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 395 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
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, Lemon is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 30 babies (100%), the most given that year.
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 Lemon
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 Lemon and names like it
- Compare Lemon and LeamonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLemon peaked in 2021.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lemon since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Lemon.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lemon alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.