Lemon
Lemon is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 570th, in 1902.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192730 births
- Best rank
- #570in 1902
- Since 1882
- 1,400people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,071 boys have been named Lemon in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1927, with 30 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 30 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 20 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Lemon is used for both sexes: 24% of its bearers are girls (329), most of them born around 2021.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Lemon | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 39 | |
| 1890s | 76 | |
| 1900s | 82 | |
| 1910s | 182 | |
| 1920s | 228 | |
| 1930s | 162 | |
| 1940s | 119 | |
| 1950s | 80 | |
| 1960s | 60 | |
| 1970s | 28 | |
| 1980s | 5 | |
| 1990s | 10 |
In 1927, its biggest year
Lemon was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1927 were Robert, John, James, William and Charles. See all of 1927.
Names that rose and fell with Lemon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Earlypeak 1927
- Odiepeak 1918
- Percypeak 1921
- Manniepeak 1919
- Dewittpeak 1921
- Clarencepeak 1921
- Tillmanpeak 1917
- Gloverpeak 1915
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.