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Leeroy

#3,561 in 2025Boys' name

The king, through Leroy

Leeroy has been given to 4,404 babies in the U.S. since 1887. In 2025 it ranked #3,561 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1927, with 95 recorded.

Babies named Leeroy, 2025

1 in 104,000

Leeroy over time, 1880–2025

Boys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leeroy: meaning, origin, and history

The king, through Leroy

surname transfer

What Leeroy means

Leeroy belongs to the name family reached through Leeroy → Leroy. Its meaning is “the king”.

Origin, language, and formation

Leeroy is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Leeroy is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Leroy.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Leeroy is pronounced /ˈliːˌɹɔɪ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,404 boys were recorded with the name Leeroy between 1887 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 95 in 1927; its best national rank was #652 in 1927.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,958 in 2020 to #3,561 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,644 in 2015 to #3,561 in 2025.

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 Leeroy?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 104,000
32 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 53,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,561
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
71,810 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leeroy 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 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leeroy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leeroys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leeroy was born before 1944 — so the typical Leeroy is around 81 today.

Median birth year
1944
About 81 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,888
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 18.7% of all recorded uses (822).

Is Leeroy 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
+946
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,397
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+83
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.07×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
33.7%
Peak was 1927 (95)
Years since peak
98
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#652
1927

Spellings of Leeroy

Leeroy is not the most common spelling — Leroy is, with 91.5% against Leeroy's 2.0%.

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 Leeroy is used

Across 1910–2025, Leeroy was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 75,179 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 14,286
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 20,000
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 25,000
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 33,333
  5. 5Kansas1 in 100,000
  6. 6Missouri1 in 100,000
  7. 7Mississippi1 in 100,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 100,000

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. Leeroy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Leeroy around the world

Where Leeroy 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
    1998–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2013–2023
    #660
    in 2023
  • France
    1983–2025
    #264
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2015–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1983–2011
    #487
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Leeroy

People whose public names include Leeroy, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Leeroy in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Leeroy. Linked forms have their own page here.

Leroy

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Leeroy by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,561
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,397
Best rank ever
#652
1927
Peak year
1927
95 that year
First recorded
1887
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,404
Count in 2025
32

Names similar to Leeroy

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

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Names with a curve like Leeroy

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

GlendonTalmadgeEldenOranMahlonJoySantoFarrisBertrandRollinDenzilGiles

Sibling names for Leeroy

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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