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Lech

Boys' name

Possibly wasteland dweller

Lech has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1982. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1982, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Lech, 1982

1 in 702,000

Lech over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lech: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly wasteland dweller

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lech means

Lech may mean “wasteland dweller”, associated with lęděninъ.

Origin, language, and formation

Lech is used in Polish.

Lech comes through Old Polish Lech, Proto-Slavic *lęxъ and Proto-Slavic *lęděninъ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lścimir.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Lech is pronounced /ˈlɛx/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Lech between 1982 and 1982. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1982; its best national rank was #6,944 in 1982.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lech?

Lech had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1982, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1982
1 in 702,000
5 of 3,507,638 births
Among boys only
1 in 363,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1982
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
486,263 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lech sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1982 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 486,263 children born in 1982 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lech. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lechs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lech was born before 1982 — so the typical Lech is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Lech rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1982 (5)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#6,944
1982

Spellings of Lech

Lech is not the most common spelling — Leo is, with 20.6% against Lech's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Lech around the world

Where Lech ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1948–1948
    #1,076
    in 1948
  • South Australia
    1950–1975
    #460
    in 1975

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lech by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,944
1982
Peak year
1982
5 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
1982
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lech

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Lech

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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