Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Legion” in the USA?

Number of people named “Legion” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Legion” 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.

Popularity of “Legion” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Legion” by birth year

This chart shows how “Legion” 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.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
2003 5 0.000001315 5 -100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 -100%
2007 7 0.000001751 7 -100%
2008 11 0.000002799 11 -100%
2009 12 0.000003141 12 -100%
2010 24 0.000006494 24 -100%
2011 23 0.000006288 23 -100%
2012 20 0.000005468 20 -100%
2013 15 0.000004114 15 -100%
2014 22 0.000005936 22 -100%
2015 21 0.000005674 21 -100%
2016 20 0.000005452 20 -100%
2017 23 0.000006431 23 -100%
2018 23 0.000006542 23 -100%
2019 20 0.000005762 20 -100%
2020 26 0.000007783 26 -100%
2021 27 0.000007969 27 -100%
2022 20 0.000005912 20 -100%
2023 18 0.000005436 18 -100%
2024 11 0.000003305 11 -100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Legion:

  1. Legend
  2. Legendary
  3. Legennd
  4. Legin
  5. Legina
  6. Legion (this page)
  7. Legna
  8. Legolas
  9. Legrand
  10. Legrande
  11. Legrant