Legacy
#662 for girls in 2025, 429 births · #955 for boys in 2025, 244 births
Given to girls 68.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 725 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,774since 1994
Legacy over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #662 | 429 | #955 | 244 |
| 2024 | #610 | 493 | #957 | 237 |
| 2023 | #540 | 559 | #831 | 295 |
| 2022 | #484 | 655 | #731 | 355 |
| 2021 | #434 | 725 | #709 | 370 |
| 2020 | #500 | 612 | #760 | 316 |
| 2019 | #615 | 491 | #826 | 273 |
| 2018 | #786 | 347 | #1,079 | 183 |
| 2017 | #942 | 280 | #1,439 | 119 |
| 2016 | #1,039 | 254 | #1,903 | 77 |
| 2015 | #1,416 | 163 | #2,253 | 59 |
| 2014 | #1,892 | 106 | #3,234 | 34 |
| 2013 | #2,305 | 80 | #3,405 | 31 |
| 2012 | #2,401 | 77 | #3,625 | 29 |
| 2011 | #3,051 | 55 | #4,356 | 22 |
| 2010 | #2,589 | 70 | #3,181 | 35 |
| 2009 | #4,107 | 37 | #5,334 | 17 |
| 2008 | #4,360 | 35 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #4,944 | 29 | — | |
| 2006 | #5,709 | 23 | — | |
| 2005 | #5,800 | 21 | — | |
| 2004 | #5,555 | 22 | — | |
| 2003 | #4,668 | 27 | — | |
| 2002 | #4,498 | 27 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #3,631 | 36 | — | |
| 2000 | #5,491 | 20 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,639 | 33 | — | |
| 1998 | #5,123 | 20 | — | |
| 1997 | #7,283 | 12 | — | |
| 1996 | #5,280 | 18 | — | |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | — | |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Legacy! It came in at #8,122, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1994–1995, when fewer than 11 girls a year got the name.
See more about Legacy
- 52 spots since 2024 (#610 → #662)
- 162 spots since 2020 (#500 → #662)
- 754 spots since 2015 (#1,416 → #662)
- Biggest jump: 171 spots in 2019 (#786 → #615)
- Biggest drop: 70 spots in 2024 (#540 → #610)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2021 at #434 (725 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 2017–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,263 girls born in 2021 were named Legacy (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,747 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 60.1% of all girls named Legacy (3,473) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 101 | #3,639 (1999) | #6,500 |
| 2000s | 277 | #3,631 (2001) | #4,876 |
| 2010s | 1,923 | #615 (2019) | #1,704 |
| 2020s | 3,473 | #434 (2021) | #538 |
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.
Legacy in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 2,504 of them was named Legacy, which outranked 97.3% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 4,918 of them was named Legacy, which outranked 94.9% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).