How popular is “Legend” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Legend” 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 “Legend” has changed over time.

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

This chart shows how “Legend” 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
1993	10	0.000002652		10	-100%
1994	18	0.000004842	7	11	-22%
1995	40	0.000010923	11	29	-45%
1996	25	0.000006855	8	17	-36%
1997	33	0.000009102	16	17	-3%
1998	37	0.000010059	16	21	-14%
1999	54	0.000014619	13	41	-52%
2000	42	0.000011111	12	30	-43%
2001	56	0.00001496	16	40	-43%
2002	48	0.00001284	8	40	-67%
2003	40	0.00001052	9	31	-55%
2004	53	0.000013871	8	45	-70%
2005	103	0.000026789	15	88	-71%
2006	82	0.000020727	17	65	-59%
2007	111	0.000027766	17	94	-69%
2008	183	0.000046557	20	163	-78%
2009	216	0.000056542	25	191	-77%
2010	229	0.000061963	15	214	-87%
2011	228	0.000062333	13	215	-89%
2012	284	0.000077651	21	263	-85%
2013	344	0.000094359	18	326	-90%
2014	563	0.0001519	41	522	-85%
2015	866	0.000233996	52	814	-88%
2016	1217	0.000331725	70	1147	-88%
2017	1537	0.000429786	76	1461	-90%
2018	1813	0.000515658	80	1733	-91%
2019	2648	0.000762907	70	2578	-95%
2020	2914	0.000872304	67	2847	-95%
2021	3239	0.000956036	57	3182	-96%
2022	2968	0.000877293	69	2899	-95%
2023	2547	0.000769208	47	2500	-96%
2024	2308	0.000693405	33	2275	-97%

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