# Legend (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/legend/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 26,773 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 25,805 / 968 (4% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 60, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 13 | 8,938 |
| 2012 | 21 | 6,239 |
| 2013 | 18 | 6,901 |
| 2014 | 41 | 3,758 |
| 2015 | 52 | 3,197 |
| 2016 | 70 | 2,550 |
| 2017 | 76 | 2,394 |
| 2018 | 80 | 2,289 |
| 2019 | 70 | 2,525 |
| 2020 | 67 | 2,568 |
| 2021 | 57 | 2,946 |
| 2022 | 69 | 2,567 |
| 2023 | 47 | 3,406 |
| 2024 | 33 | 4,339 |
| 2025 | 21 | 5,833 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 215 | 929 |
| 2012 | 263 | 833 |
| 2013 | 327 | 718 |
| 2014 | 523 | 534 |
| 2015 | 815 | 391 |
| 2016 | 1,148 | 310 |
| 2017 | 1,461 | 255 |
| 2018 | 1,734 | 216 |
| 2019 | 2,578 | 150 |
| 2020 | 2,852 | 127 |
| 2021 | 3,186 | 118 |
| 2022 | 2,901 | 132 |
| 2023 | 2,505 | 145 |
| 2024 | 2,288 | 157 |
| 2025 | 1,862 | 193 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6 | 2,775 |
| 2012 | 4 | 3,987 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,011 |
| 2019 | 8 | 2,488 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,334 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,493 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,119 |
| 2025 | 6 | 3,256 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.