Lemmie
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lemmie has been given to 816 babies in the U.S. since 1889. 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 1931, with 21 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 82% boys, 18% girls all-time.
Babies named Lemmie, 1988
1 in 739,000
Lemmie over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Lemmie over time
In 2023, Lemmie went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Lemmie?
Lemmie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1988
- 1 in 739,000
- 5 of 3,694,212 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 383,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1988
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 512,128 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lemmie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1988 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 512,128 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lemmie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lemmies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lemmie was born before 1930 — so the typical Lemmie is around 95 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 22.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 4.1%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 121
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 22.2% of all recorded uses (148).
Is Lemmie 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 1931 (21)
- Years since peak
- 94
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.7% average annual change
Spellings of Lemmie
Lemmie is not the most common spelling — Leslie is, with 37.7% against Lemmie's 0.22%.
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 Lemmie is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Lemmie was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 395,121 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 2Alabama1 in —
- 3North Carolina1 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. Lemmie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Lemmie is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Lemmie was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 411,993 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Lemmie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Lemmie around the world
Where Lemmie 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.
- Canada2021–2021#3,354in 2021
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Lemmie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Lemmie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lemmie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.