Leafy

Last seen for girls in 1950 at #5,301

Peak · girls
1894 · 13 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
197
since 1887

Leafy over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Leafy has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201894peak #850, 1894girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1929#4,0536
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1923#4,3766
1922#5,0095
1921#4,0237
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1917#3,7137
1916#3,5527
1915#2,9009
1914#2,6388
1913#2,03410
1912#2,1448
1911#1,7928
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1908#2,1015
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1905#1,6966
1904#1,8775
1903#1,5926
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1901#1,06710
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1898#1,1719
1897#1,03710
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1895#98611
1894#85013
1893#90111
1892#1,2786
1891#1,0937
1890#1,0997
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1887#1,1475
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First appearance
1887

The first year at least five girls were named Leafy! It came in at #1,147, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1887–1889, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Leafy
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1950
  • Biggest jump: 377 spots in 1893 (#1,278#901)
  • Biggest drop: 136 spots in 1895 (#850#986)
Rise & fade · girls
7 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1887
  • Peaked 1894 at #850 (13 births)
  • Births halved by 1896, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 3 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1893–1895
Share of babies · girls
1 in 17,148
  • Highest: 1 in 17,148 girls born in 1894 were named Leafy (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 342,611 girls born in 1950 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1890s
  • 37.6% of all girls named Leafy (74) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s5#1,147 (1887)#1,147
1890s74#850 (1894)#1,052
1900s32#1,067 (1901)#1,667
1910s57#1,792 (1911)#2,682
1920s24#4,023 (1921)#4,365
1930s0
1940s0
1950s5#5,301 (1950)#5,301

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Leafy in 1894

girls
#850
13 births · 1 in 17,148 girls

Top girls' names in 1894

  1. #1Mary13,151
  2. #2Anna5,565
  3. #3Margaret3,700
  4. #4Helen3,676
  5. #5Elizabeth3,425
  6. #6Ruth3,372
  7. #7Ethel3,287
  8. #8Florence3,233
  9. #9Emma2,937
  10. #10Marie2,649
  11. #850Leafy13
More about 1894

girls

222,922 girls got a published name in 1894; 1 in 17,148 of them was named Leafy, which outranked 50.1% of the 1,702 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Leafy
  1. #812Yetta14
  2. #812Zena14
  3. #812Zita14
  4. #850Leafy13
  5. #850Abigail13
  6. #850Adelina13
  7. #850Aimee13
  8. #905Adelle12
  9. #905Albert12
  10. #905Almira12

Tied with 54 names at #850; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1893
Risers
  1. 794Versie#1,437#643
  2. 613Nadine#1,277#664
  3. 587Genoveva#1,437#850
  4. 558Lavada#1,277#719
  5. 532Libby#1,437#905
Fallers
  1. 691Macy#794#1,485
  2. 659Fredericka#826#1,485
  3. 586Dee#767#1,353
  4. 584Katharyn#901#1,485
  5. 584Leva#901#1,485

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1894