Girls' name · since 1999
Leydy
Leydy has 85 recorded births since 1999 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2005 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #28,972 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,830 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 85
- born since 1999
- 2000s
- peak decade
85 babies have been named Leydy since 1999, making it today's #15830 girls' name.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Leydy has been recorded 85 times among girls since 1999, currently ranked #15830 nationally and more common than 8% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2000s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1999 to 2025.
- #28,972 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #15,830 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 85 born since 1999
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Leydy ranks #28,972 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,830 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 85 born since 1999, peaking in the 2000s.
- #28,972 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,830 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 85
- born since 1999
- 2000s
- peak decade
Leydy's 85 recorded births place it above 59.84% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Leydy compares
85 22nd percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Leydy's all-time total is 77% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Leydy | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 85 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 11 | 21 | 19,840 |
Leydy's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Leydy's full recorded timeline at 2007, 42% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 58% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2019, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2005 peak of 11 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Leydy popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1999–2025
- Peak year (2005)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 27 years of records
Leydy by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (63 births, 74% of the file).
2000s was Leydy's strongest decade.
63 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 74% of all-time use.
Leydy births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 7
1990s
7 births
- 2000s
2000s
63 births
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s 10
2020s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 63 births (74% of all-time use).
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What to do with Leydy's data
- Leydy's decade-level peak was the 2000s (63 total births); usage has since declined to 10 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Leydy: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2005)
Similar record span (~26 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1999–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Leydy draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.