Len
Len is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 514th, in 1885.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1960121 births
- Best rank
- #514in 1885
- Since 1880
- 4,608people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,506 boys have been named Len in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 121 births.
The name has all but left use: 8 births in 2024, against 121 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1957, and the 1960s alone account for 20%. It has spent 57 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 102 girls have also been given it, 2.2% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Len | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 91 | |
| 1890s | 65 | |
| 1900s | 87 | |
| 1910s | 242 | |
| 1920s | 314 | |
| 1930s | 360 | |
| 1940s | 560 | |
| 1950s | 829 | |
| 1960s | 896 | |
| 1970s | 494 | |
| 1980s | 208 | |
| 1990s | 113 | |
| 2000s | 94 | |
| 2010s | 108 | |
| 2020s | 45 |
In 1960, its biggest year
Len was the 713th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1960 were David, Michael, James, John and Robert. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Len
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Perrypeak 1959
- Johnpeak 1947
- Leepeak 1951
- Dellpeak 1953
- Tompeak 1959
- Toneypeak 1961
- Williampeak 1947
- Guypeak 1957
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.