Legaci vs Legend
American parents have registered 26,773 Legends since 1880, against 1,213 Legacis. Legend is still ahead, with 1,883 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Legaci Legend
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
Legend has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1993 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 1998, when Legaci had 5 and Legend had 37.
Side by side
| Legaci | Legend | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,213 | 26,773 |
| Most in one year | 188 | 3,243 |
| Babies in 2025 | 97 | 1,883 |
| Estimated living today | 1,200 | 27,000 |
| Median age today | 4 | 5 |
| Peak year | 2021 | 2021 |
| Best rank | 1,392nd girls | 118th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 2,153rd | 193rd |
| First recorded | 1998 | 1993 |
| Girls / boys | 1,071 / 142 | 968 / 25,805 |
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.
Where each one is strongest
- Legaci Louisiana (5.4×), Florida (3.4×), Texas (3.3×)
- Legend Nevada (4.0×), Hawaii (3.0×), Delaware (2.6×)
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: Legaci and Legend.