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Leman

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Arabic origin

Leman has been given to 625 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1937, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Leman, 1997

1 in 725,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leman: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Arabic origin

Arabic

What Leman means

Leman is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Leman is used in Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 625 boys were recorded with the name Leman between 1913 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1937; its best national rank was #1,428 in 1937.

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 Leman?

Leman had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1997, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1997
1 in 725,000
5 of 3,624,676 births
Among boys only
1 in 377,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1997
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
502,488 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leman 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 1997 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 502,488 children born in 1997 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lemans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leman was born before 1936 — so the typical Leman is around 89 today.

Median birth year
1936
About 89 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
185
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 23.2% of all recorded uses (145).

Is Leman 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 1937 (23)
Years since peak
88
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,428
1937

Spellings of Leman

Leman is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 20.8% against Leman'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.

Leman around the world

Where Leman 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
    2009–2009
    #5,632
    in 2009

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Leman 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
#1,428
1937
Peak year
1937
23 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
1997
All-time count
625
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Leman

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

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Sibling names for Leman

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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