Legend

Where Legend comes from

The dictionaries list Legend as a given name — a male given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1993
    First appearance
    #5,360 among boys, 10 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2021
    Peak, #118
    3,186 babies named Legend — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes

No widely known Legend turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.