Leroy
Leroy reached its high-water mark in 1924 at number 53, and has been recorded 202,163 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 883rd. About 72,000 Leroys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 66.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Leroy boys named Leroy
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 202,163
- Estimated living today
- 72,000
- Median age today
- 66
- Peak year
- 1924
- Best rank
- 53rd
- Rank in 2025
- 883rd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 1,182 / 200,981
How old the living Leroys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 202,163 babies given the name since 1880, about 72,000 are alive — 36 in every hundred. Roughly 4,200 of them are children and 39,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1959 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 the name comes from
Origin a surname
Transferred from the common French surname Leroy, meaning "the king".
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Leroys
- Leroy Sané (born 1996)German association football player
- Leroy Fer (born 1990)Dutch association football player
- Leroy Chiao (born 1960)American astronaut and engineer
- Leroy Burrell (born 1967)American sprinter
- Leroy Anderson (1908–1975)American composer
- Leroy Carr (1905–1935)American blues singer, songwriter and pianist
- Leroy Lita (born 1984)English footballer
- LeRoy Pope Walker (1817–1884)Confederate Army general
People named Leroy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Leroy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Leroy is most concentrated in South Carolina (3.8×), South Dakota (2.7×), Mississippi (2.6×), North Dakota (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1924
The most popular boys’ names the year Leroy peaked:
Leroy elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Leroy | 555 | 624th |
| France boys | Leroy +1 spelling | 230 | 2,035th |
| Switzerland boys | Leroy | 135 | 586th |
| Belgium boys | Leroy | 128 | 531st |
| Ireland boys | Leroy | 80 | 472nd |
| Scotland boys | Leroy | 24 | 474th |
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.
Leroy: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Leroy | 124 | 0.010% | 478th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Leroy | 8 | 0.002% | 642nd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Leroy | 3 | 0.005% | 193rd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Leroy is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 32 of them.
Leroy: rank by region
In 2025, Leroy was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Leroy | 914 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Leroy among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Leroy | 3,145 | 4,230 |
| Finland boys | Leroy | 15 | 32 |
| the Netherlands girls | Leroy | — | 13 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Leroy against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.