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Ledarius vs Ledell

American parents have registered 562 Ledells since 1880, against 500 Ledariuses. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ledarius against Ledell, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ledarius Ledell

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 93 years in which either name was published, Ledell for 59 years and Ledarius for 34 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Ledarius Ledell
Total US births 500562
Most in one year 3520
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 490320
Median age today 2963
Peak year 19931956
Best rank 2,209th boys1,765th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19791919
Girls / boys 0 / 50021 / 541

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ledells alive today are over 63; half the Ledariuses are over 29. That is 34 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ledarius and Ledell.