Leray
Leray was last recorded in 1989, when 5 babies were given it; 174 Americans have been recorded with it between 1920 and 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leray by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leray?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,688, in 1989; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
8 babies in 1920, the peak
Leray peaked in 1920, when 8 boys were given it, #3,375 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 5 | #8,688 | 2.5 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,245 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,390 | 3.3 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,924 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,951 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,954 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,640 | 2.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,117 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,754 | 3.7 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,488 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 5 | #4,385 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 5 | #4,050 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 5 | #4,024 | 2.7 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,711 | 3.7 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,420 | 4.3 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,349 | 4.9 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,728 | 4.3 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,373 | 5.4 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,374 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 8 | #2,843 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,940 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,068 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,830 | 5.5 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,420 | 6.5 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,563 | 6.3 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,552 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,138 | 5.3 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,667 | 6.4 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,693 | 4.5 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,375 | 7.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Leray a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leray has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leray: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leray, and how old are they?
An estimated 74 Americans named Leray and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 210 people named Leray (54 women and girls, 156 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 87 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 207,462 babies since 1880, Leray is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 301 babies recorded by SSA was a Leray (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Leray and names like it
- Compare Leray and LeroyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLeray peaked in 1920.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Leray.
- Names starting with LMost given first.