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Lemar

Lemar is a boy's name that peaked in 1979, when it was the 1,241st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 6,143rd. About 1,400 Lemars are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 39.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Lemar

By the numbers

Total US births
1,895
Estimated living today
1,400
Median age today
39
Peak year
1979
Best rank
1,241st
Rank in 2025
6,143rd
First recorded
1900

How old the living Lemars are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,895 babies given the name since 1900, about 1,400 are alive — 73 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1986 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Lemar is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Lemar is most concentrated in California (4.3×), New York (3.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1979

The most popular boys’ names the year Lemar peaked:

All the names of 1979

Lemar elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Lemar 306 461st
England and Wales girls Lemar 6 5,765th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.