Lemon — boys' name

What the Data Says About Lemon

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,071 babies named Lemon between 1882 and 1992, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Lemon currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1992. The name reached its historical peak in 1927, when 30 babies received it in a single year. Lemon is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 329 additional births since 1913.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lemon performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 228 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Lemon shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 37 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Lemon in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lemon in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,071 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.