Le
Le is a girl's name that peaked in 1982, when it was the 2,645th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2014. About 1,200 Les are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 44.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Le boys named Le
Girls and boys called Le
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 878 girls and 775 boys in all, and in 2000 the split was 9 to 16.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 18 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,653
- Estimated living today
- 1,200
- Median age today
- 44
- Peak year
- 1982
- Best rank
- 2,645th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1888
- Girls / boys
- 878 / 775
How old the living Les are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,653 babies given the name since 1888, about 1,200 are alive — 74 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1981 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.
Notable Les
- Le Corbusier (1887–1965)Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer
- Lê Công Vinh (born 1985)Vietnamese professional football player
- Le Duc Anh (1920–2019)4th president of Vietnam
- Le Pétomane (1857–1945)French entertainer
- Lê Hoàn (941–1005)Vietnamese emperor and founder of the Early Lê dynasty
- LE (born 1991)South Korean rapper and singer
- Lê Quang Vinh (1923–1956)Vietnamese military leader
- Le Luong Minh (born 1952)Vietnamese politician
People named Le with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Le is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Le is most concentrated in California (9.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1982
The most popular girls’ names the year Le peaked:
Le elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Le | 85 | 6,643rd |
| France girls | Le | 75 | 6,328th |
| England and Wales girls | Le | 38 | 3,533rd |
| England and Wales boys | Le | 32 | 3,095th |
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.
Le by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 5 | 422nd |
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 566th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Le 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Le +1 spelling | 65 | 125 |
| Finland boys | Le | 36 | 57 |
A count of people on a register – 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
Le 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.