How popular is “Legacy” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Legacy” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

This chart shows how the popularity of “Legacy” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Legacy” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

This chart shows how “Legacy” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1994	10	0.00000269	10		100%
1995	8	0.000002185	8		100%
1996	18	0.000004935	18		100%
1997	12	0.00000331	12		100%
1998	20	0.000005437	20		100%
1999	33	0.000008934	33		100%
2000	20	0.000005291	20		100%
2001	36	0.000009617	36		100%
2002	32	0.00000856	27	5	69%
2003	27	0.000007101	27		100%
2004	22	0.000005758	22		100%
2005	21	0.000005462	21		100%
2006	23	0.000005814	23		100%
2007	29	0.000007254	29		100%
2008	43	0.00001094	35	8	63%
2009	54	0.000014135	37	17	37%
2010	105	0.000028411	70	35	33%
2011	77	0.000021051	55	22	43%
2012	106	0.000028983	77	29	45%
2013	111	0.000030447	80	31	44%
2014	140	0.000037773	106	34	51%
2015	222	0.000059985	163	59	47%
2016	331	0.000090223	254	77	53%
2017	398	0.000111291	280	118	41%
2018	530	0.000150744	347	183	31%
2019	764	0.000220114	491	273	29%
2020	926	0.000277198	610	316	32%
2021	1095	0.000323204	725	370	32%
2022	1008	0.000297949	655	353	30%
2023	854	0.000257913	559	295	31%
2024	728	0.000218717	491	237	35%

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