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Ledger

#554 in 2025Boys' name

Surname transferred into given-name use

Ledger has been given to 5,001 babies in the U.S. since 1923. In 2025 it ranked #554 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 608 recorded.

Babies named Ledger, 2025

1 in 6,130

Ledger over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ledger: meaning, origin, and history

Surname transferred into given-name use

surname transfer

What Ledger means

Ledger is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ledger is used in English (Modern).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.əɹ/ and /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ə/ for Ledger.

The naming story behind Ledger

Ledger is a given name adopted from surname. This establishes the immediate naming route. A surname transfer is different from a direct translation of the modern given-name spelling; the family name may have its own earlier derivation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,970 boys were recorded with the name Ledger between 1923 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 608 in 2024; its best national rank was #503 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #631 in 2020 to #554 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,171 in 2015 to #554 in 2025.

In the United States, 31 girls were recorded with the name Ledger between 2020 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2022; its best national rank was #11,785 in 2022.

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.

How common is Ledger?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 6,130
541 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 3,160
0.03% of boys
Rank, 2025
#554
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,249 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ledger 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 2025 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 1002%
School of 5008%

Put another way: gather 4,249 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ledger. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ledgers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ledger was born before 2021 — so the typical Ledger is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
61.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,952
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 61.5% of all recorded uses (3,059).

Is Ledger 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
−51
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+77
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+617
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
89.0%
Peak was 2024 (608)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#503
2024

Spellings of Ledger

Ledger is not the most common spelling — Edgar is, with 49.4% against Ledger's 1.6%.

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.

Where Ledger is used

Across 2016–2025, Ledger was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 763 boys, against 1 in 3,937 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in 33,333).

3131 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 763
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 1,111
  3. 3North Dakota1 in 1,136
  4. 4South Dakota1 in 1,136
  5. 5Iowa1 in 1,250
  6. 6West Virginia1 in 1,299
  7. 7Idaho1 in 1,333
  8. 8Montana1 in 1,370

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Ledger is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 81% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Ledger around the world

Where Ledger 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.

  • England & Wales
    2022–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #1,181
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #494
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ledger by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#554
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 77
Best rank ever
#503
2024
Peak year
2024
608 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,970
Count in 2025
541

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,785
2022
Peak year
2022
8 that year
First recorded
2020
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
31
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ledger

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

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Names with a curve like Ledger

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ledger, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Ledger

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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