Leif
Last seen for girls in 1981 at #10,411 · #917 for boys in 2025, 257 births
Given to boys >99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1979 · 181 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,997since 1912
Leif over time
Rank among boys' names. Leif has never cracked the top 600 here.
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 | — | #917 | 257 | |
| 2024 | — | #927 | 250 | |
| 2023 | — | #860 | 279 | |
| 2022 | — | #841 | 290 | |
| 2021 | — | #991 | 221 | |
| 2020 | — | #910 | 245 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,013 | 205 | |
| 2018 | — | #998 | 207 | |
| 2017 | — | #955 | 218 | |
| 2016 | — | #963 | 214 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,061 | 187 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,004 | 205 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,005 | 195 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,060 | 179 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,028 | 185 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,092 | 176 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,063 | 175 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,240 | 140 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,327 | 128 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,239 | 135 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,081 | 152 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,304 | 114 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,111 | 138 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,315 | 101 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,151 | 120 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,116 | 126 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,149 | 114 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,301 | 91 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,366 | 81 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,246 | 89 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,307 | 81 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,275 | 84 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,313 | 75 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,274 | 79 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,113 | 97 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,166 | 87 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,184 | 81 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,003 | 94 | |
| 1987 | — | #954 | 97 | |
| 1986 | — | #854 | 113 | |
| 1985 | — | #857 | 110 | |
| 1984 | — | #823 | 113 | |
| 1983 | — | #740 | 136 | |
| 1982 | — | #676 | 164 | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #694 | 154 |
| 1980 | — | #664 | 169 | |
| 1979 | — | #638 | 181 | |
| 1978 | — | #759 | 124 | |
| 1977 | — | #937 | 82 | |
| 1976 | — | #878 | 90 | |
| 1975 | — | #796 | 109 | |
| 1974 | — | #818 | 97 | |
| 1973 | — | #810 | 95 | |
| 1972 | — | #760 | 109 | |
| 1971 | — | #767 | 114 | |
| 1970 | — | #653 | 157 | |
| 1969 | — | #676 | 135 | |
| 1968 | — | #736 | 102 | |
| 1967 | — | #754 | 96 | |
| 1966 | — | #853 | 72 | |
| 1965 | — | #809 | 83 | |
| 1964 | — | #849 | 80 | |
| 1963 | — | #816 | 86 | |
| 1962 | — | #862 | 77 | |
| 1961 | — | #870 | 77 | |
| 1960 | — | #862 | 78 | |
| 1959 | — | #987 | 61 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,104 | 48 | |
| 1957 | — | #995 | 58 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,140 | 44 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,114 | 44 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,101 | 46 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,074 | 46 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,268 | 34 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,643 | 21 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,123 | 40 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,144 | 38 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,519 | 23 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,646 | 21 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,601 | 20 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,633 | 17 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,988 | 13 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,764 | 17 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,682 | 18 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,997 | 13 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,736 | 16 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,532 | 19 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,976 | 13 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,992 | 13 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,629 | 8 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,951 | 7 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,742 | 8 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,004 | 7 | |
| 1932 | — | #2,191 | 12 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,003 | 14 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,609 | 10 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,002 | 15 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,162 | 14 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,703 | 10 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,981 | 16 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,089 | 15 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,641 | 11 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,446 | 12 | |
| 1922 | — | #2,240 | 14 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,376 | 13 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,815 | 6 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,695 | 20 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,827 | 18 | |
| 1917 | — | #1,815 | 17 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,771 | 17 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,505 | 21 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,687 | 14 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,497 | 13 | |
| 1912 | — | #2,045 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Leif! It came in at #2,045, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1920, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
See more about Leif
- 10 spots since 2024 (#927 → #917)
- 7 spots since 2020 (#910 → #917)
- 144 spots since 2015 (#1,061 → #917)
- Biggest jump: 178 spots in 1978 (#937 → #759)
- Biggest drop: 114 spots in 1971 (#653 → #767)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 1979 at #638 (181 births)
- Births halved by 1989, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 39 yrs · run 1959–1987
- Highest: 1 in 6,021 boys born in 2022 were named Leif (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,646 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #638 in 1979, was only 1 in 9,511 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 19.7% of all boys named Leif (1,971) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 127 | #1,497 (1913) | #1,730 |
| 1920s | 126 | #1,981 (1926) | #2,446 |
| 1930s | 111 | #1,532 (1939) | #2,363 |
| 1940s | 196 | #1,144 (1949) | #1,671 |
| 1950s | 442 | #987 (1959) | #1,155 |
| 1960s | 886 | #676 (1969) | #809 |
| 1970s | 1,158 | #638 (1979) | #782 |
| 1980s | 1,231 | #664 (1980) | #845 |
| 1990s | 878 | #1,113 (1991) | #1,251 |
| 2000s | 1,329 | #1,063 (2009) | #1,195 |
| 2010s | 1,971 | #955 (2017) | #1,018 |
| 2020s | 1,542 | #841 (2022) | #908 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Leif in 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 333,612 of them was named Leif, which outranked 14.6% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,787 names at #10,411; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 11,631 of them was named Leif, which outranked 90.5% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).