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Lehi

#8,642 in 2025Boys' name

Jawbone

Lehi has been given to 357 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #8,642 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Lehi, 2025

1 in 368,000

Lehi over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lehi: meaning, origin, and history

Jawbone

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lehi means

Lehi means “jawbone”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 357 boys were recorded with the name Lehi between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2005; its best national rank was #4,323 in 1986.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,461 in 2020 to #8,642 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,545 in 2015 to #8,642 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.

How common is Lehi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,642
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lehi 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lehi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lehis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lehi was born before 2004 — so the typical Lehi is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
26.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
357
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 26.6% of all recorded uses (95).

Is Lehi 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
+1,852
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−181
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,097
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.69×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.0%
Peak was 2005 (15)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,323
1986

Spellings of Lehi

Lehi is not the most common spelling — Leo is, with 20.4% against Lehi's 0.03%.

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 Lehi is used

Across 1910–2025, Lehi was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 246,562 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in —

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

Lehi by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,642
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 181
Best rank ever
#4,323
1986
Peak year
2005
15 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
357
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Lehi

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

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Sibling names for Lehi

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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