Girl Names That Start With L
Girls' names beginning with L, ranked by how many babies actually got them — not by editorial preference — plus which ones are climbing and how the letter itself has moved.
- Share of girls, 2025
- 7.6%
- vs 4.6% in 2000
- Names in use
- 1,004
- 4,744 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 1963
- at 10.8% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #5
- by 2025 share
How L has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with L, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every letter would appear to peak in 1957.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 805#379 | Down 23 rank positions in five years | 1964 | |||
| 777#401 | Down 169 rank positions in five years | 1989 | |||
| 3,966#57 | Down 11 rank positions in five years | 1920 | |||
| 579#516 | Up 165 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 3,880#58 | Down 13 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 6,176#25 | Up 25 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,314#239 | Up 35 rank positions in five years | 1920 | |||
| 6,673#18 | Up 17 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 2,692#92 | Up 3 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 485#606 | Up 337 rank positions in five years | 1938 | |||
| 1,106#279 | Down 8 rank positions in five years | 1917 | |||
| 5,338#36 | Down 12 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 723#429 | Up 55 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 1,132#275 | Down 38 rank positions in five years | 1919 | |||
| 6,076#27 | Down 13 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,670#187 | Up 41 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 3,118#78 | Up 32 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,218#252 | Down 23 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 3,012#83 | Up 77 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 768#406 | Down 13 rank positions in five years | 1948 | |||
| 3,792#60 | Up 32 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,193#259 | Down 54 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 3,089#80 | Up 38 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 570#528 | Up 1,029 rank positions in five years | 1916 | |||
| 719#431 | Down 237 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 755#413 | Down 186 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 562#539 | Up 575 rank positions in five years | 1924 | |||
| 775#402 | Down 85 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 1,526#200 | Up 91 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 5,738#30 | Up 336 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 464#628 | Down 261 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 799#388 | Down 225 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 1,736#179 | Up 61 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 695#446 | Down 103 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 451#640 | Down 232 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 801#386 | Up 76 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 537#560 | Up 96 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 527#572 | Up 118 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 1,033#297 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 699#441 | Up 63 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 1,139#273 | Up 133 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,111#277 | Up 39 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 1,421#214 | Up 85 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 892#342 | Up 59 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 478#611 | Down 25 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 926#333 | Up 194 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 503#585 | Up 9 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 711#435 | Up 115 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 429#662 | Down 162 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 596#498 | Up 966 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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L names climbing fastest
Biggest L names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
Every other letter
Sources & methodology
Rankings and counts come from official birth card-application data, 1880–2025. Counts are card applications rather than births, and any name given to fewer than 5 babies of one sex in a year is not published — so “—” means genuinely uncommon, never invalid. The “climbing fastest” row ranks by five-year rank movement as a ratio, and a name must be inside the top 1,000 with at least 200 applications in 2025 to qualify — a looser gate than the site-wide trending list uses, because inside a single letter the stricter one leaves some letters empty. Letter shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because letter fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.