Lige
Lige was last recorded in 2006, when 6 babies were given it; 1,280 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lige by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lige?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,489, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
30 babies in 1915, the peak
Lige peaked in 1915, when 30 boys were given it, #1,201 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 6 | #11,489 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,460 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,760 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,395 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,886 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,956 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,875 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,963 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,999 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,279 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 5 | #4,766 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,759 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,867 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,973 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,507 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,524 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,958 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,764 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,312 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,395 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,168 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,318 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,641 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 13 | #2,216 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 8 | #2,969 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,276 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,076 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 21 | #1,637 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,036 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,818 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,504 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,263 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,416 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,836 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,351 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,594 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,562 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,378 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,723 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,135 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,637 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 14 | #1,982 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,169 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 15 | #1,967 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,060 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,385 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,399 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,338 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,542 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,369 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,048 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 19 | #1,872 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,673 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 27 | #1,457 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,025 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,574 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 26 | #1,432 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 30 | #1,306 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,675 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,574 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 30 | #1,201 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 21 | #1,324 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 20 | #1,162 | 0.04 |
| 1912 | 23 | #957 | 0.05 |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,018 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 12 | #966 | 0.06 |
| 1909 | 13 | #823 | 0.08 |
| 1908 | 15 | #700 | 0.10 |
| 1907 | 13 | #762 | 0.09 |
| 1906 | 12 | #732 | 0.09 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,041 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 15 | #601 | 0.12 |
| 1903 | 8 | #882 | 0.07 |
| 1902 | 9 | #833 | 0.07 |
| 1901 | 9 | #755 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 25 | #463 | 0.17 |
| 1899 | 9 | #757 | 0.08 |
| 1898 | 16 | #530 | 0.13 |
| 1897 | 12 | #630 | 0.11 |
| 1896 | 20 | #452 | 0.17 |
| 1895 | 18 | #483 | 0.15 |
| 1894 | 15 | #531 | 0.13 |
| 1893 | 16 | #473 | 0.14 |
| 1892 | 16 | #508 | 0.13 |
| 1891 | 18 | #424 | 0.18 |
| 1890 | 19 | #420 | 0.17 |
| 1889 | 17 | #452 | 0.15 |
| 1888 | 24 | #382 | 0.20 |
| 1887 | 9 | #658 | 0.09 |
| 1886 | 13 | #528 | 0.12 |
| 1885 | 16 | #473 | 0.15 |
| 1884 | 13 | #534 | 0.11 |
| 1883 | 21 | #377 | 0.20 |
| 1882 | 22 | #384 | 0.19 |
| 1881 | 25 | #328 | 0.25 |
| 1880 | 15 | #475 | 0.14 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lige a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lige has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 96 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lige: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lige, and how old are they?
An estimated 205 Americans named Lige and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (16% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 55 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 313 people named Lige (30 women and girls, 283 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 259 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% above 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Lige
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 Lige and names like it
- Compare Lige and DockBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sLige peaked in 1915.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lige since 1910.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Lige.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lige alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.