Leck

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Leck has been given to 12 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1916, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Leck, 1923

1 in 460,000

Leck over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leck: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leck means

Leck is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Leck is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12 boys were recorded with the name Leck between 1916 and 1923. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1916; its best national rank was #3,360 in 1916.

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.

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How common is Leck?

Leck had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1923, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1923: 1 in 460,000; 5 of 2,302,410 births
Among boys only: 1 in 219,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1923: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 319,183 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Leck 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 1923 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 319,183 children born in 1923 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leck. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lecks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leck was born before 1916 — so the typical Leck is around 109 today.

Median birth year: 1916; About 109 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 58.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 58.3% of all recorded uses (7).

Is Leck 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1916 (7)
Years since peak: 109; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #3,360; 1916

Spellings of Leck

Leck is not the most common spelling — Jack is, with 36.4% against Leck's <0.01%.

Jack36.4%756,943
Leo12.5%259,988
Lee11.2%233,627
Levi10.3%215,013
Leon8.8%182,638
Rick3.9%81,829
Luca3.7%77,521
Alec2.6%55,152

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.

Leck 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: —
Best rank ever: #3,360; 1916
Peak year: 1916; 7 that year
First recorded: 1916
Last recorded: 1923
All-time count: 12
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Leck

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

Lech Izeck Lecory Jareck Vareck Jereck Eleck Leconte Lecester Lecedric Dareck Maleck Darreck Mareck Melieck Lecharles Lecil Selleck Tyreeck Tyreck Domineck Fredreck Beck Breck

Sibling names for Leck

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

For a sister

Era Artie Alpha Hettie Cecil Ona Albina Elda

For a brother

Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman Regis Sydney Meyer

Explore around Leck

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