Legend
Legend is ranked 157th among boys in 2024 (2,275 births). Its best rank was 118th, in 2021.
- Rank in 2024
- #157down 12 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2,2750.13% of boys
- Peak year
- 20213,182 births
- Best rank
- #118in 2021
- Since 1993
- 24,856people given the name
The story in the numbers
23,909 boys have been named Legend in the United States since 1993, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 3,182 births — 0.18% of all boys recorded that year.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2021, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2020, and the 2020s alone account for 57%. It has spent 15 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 947 girls have also been given it, 3.8% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2021, its biggest year
Legend was the 118th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2021 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and James. See all of 2021.
Names that rose and fell with Legend
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kashtonpeak 2022
- Jaxtynpeak 2020
- Kaizerpeak 2024
- Caspianpeak 2024
- Kiaanpeak 2021
- Wilderpeak 2021
- Zaynpeak 2024
- Maverickpeak 2022
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.