Lemon
The boy's name Lemon has been in the national records since 1882, with 1,430 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2025. About 560 Lemons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Lemon
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Lemon crossed from boys to girls in 2016, and has stayed there for 8 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% girls, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 17 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
- 1,430
- Estimated living today
- 560
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 1927
- Best rank
- 1,350th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1882
- Girls / boys
- 359 / 1,071
How old the living Lemons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,430 babies given the name since 1882, about 560 are alive — 39 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 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 Lemons
- Blind Lemon Jefferson (1893–1929)American blues singer and guitarist
- Richard Lemon Lander (1804–1834)Cornish explorer
People named Lemon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lemon is most common
Across the country Lemon is recorded 0.04 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Lemons are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 1927
The most popular boys’ names the year Lemon peaked:
Related names
Lemon 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.