Llewellyn
Llewellyn is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. Its best rank was 594th, in 1882.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 191669 births
- Best rank
- #594in 1882
- Since 1880
- 3,728people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,398 boys have been named Llewellyn in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 69 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1941, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 47 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 330 girls have also been given it, 8.9% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Llewellyn | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 72 | |
| 1890s | 84 | |
| 1900s | 64 | |
| 1910s | 452 | |
| 1920s | 566 | |
| 1930s | 407 | |
| 1940s | 369 | |
| 1950s | 421 | |
| 1960s | 326 | |
| 1970s | 232 | |
| 1980s | 159 | |
| 1990s | 73 | |
| 2000s | 36 | |
| 2010s | 81 | |
| 2020s | 56 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Llewellyn was the 729th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1916 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Llewellyn
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Louispeak 1921
- Howellpeak 1920
- Manleypeak 1927
- Edmondpeak 1920
- Wardpeak 1961
- Ernestpeak 1921
- Alfredpeak 1928
- Sidneypeak 1918
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.