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Ledell vs Ledger

American parents have registered 5,001 Ledgers since 1880, against 562 Ledells. Ledger is still ahead, with 541 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ledell against Ledger, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ledell Ledger

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 89 years in which either name was published, Ledell for 63 years and Ledger for 26 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Ledell Ledger
Total US births 5625,001
Most in one year 20613
Babies in 2025 under 5541
Estimated living today 3205,000
Median age today 634
Peak year 19562024
Best rank 1,765th boys502nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked553rd
First recorded 19191923
Girls / boys 21 / 54131 / 4,970

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 Ledgers are over 4. That is 59 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: Ledell and Ledger.