Leroi
Leroi was last recorded in 2016, when 8 babies were given it; 150 Americans have been recorded with it between 1922 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leroi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Leroi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Leroi is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
A spelling variant of Leroy.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Leroi?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,353, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1969, the peak
Leroi peaked in 1969, when 10 boys were given it, #2,974 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 8 | #9,353 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 5 | #13,478 | 2.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,419 | 3.1 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,919 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,718 | 2.6 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,225 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,925 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,850 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,261 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,378 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 8 | #4,420 | 4.9 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,678 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,437 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,706 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,974 | 5.6 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,958 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,310 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,232 | 2.7 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,765 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,163 | 2.4 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,635 | 3.0 |
| 1951 | 5 | #4,025 | 2.7 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,760 | 4.5 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,091 | 4.8 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,677 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Leroi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leroi has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leroi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leroi, and how old are they?
An estimated 119 Americans named Leroi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 36 and 57. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 208 people named Leroi (2 women and girls, 206 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 126 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 206,965 babies since 1880, Leroi is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 301 babies recorded by SSA was a Leroi (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 Leroi and names like it
- Compare Leroi and LeroyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLeroi peaked in 1969.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Leroi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Leroi.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Leroi alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.