Leroy
Leroy is ranked 862nd among boys in 2024 (278 births). Its best rank was 50th, in 1907, 1910, 1935.
- Rank in 2024
- #862up 10 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2780.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 19243,922 births
- Best rank
- #50first in 1907
- Since 1880
- 201,884people given the name
The story in the numbers
200,702 boys have been named Leroy in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 3,922 births — 0.35% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 278 births in 2024, against 3,922 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1938, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 143 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 68 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,182 girls have also been given it, 0.59% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Leroy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,574 | |
| 1890s | 2,544 | |
| 1900s | 4,300 | |
| 1910s | 21,275 | |
| 1920s | 37,870 | |
| 1930s | 36,256 | |
| 1940s | 33,863 | |
| 1950s | 24,589 | |
| 1960s | 15,219 | |
| 1970s | 8,408 | |
| 1980s | 5,599 | |
| 1990s | 3,555 | |
| 2000s | 2,157 | |
| 2010s | 2,168 | |
| 2020s | 1,325 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Leroy was the 53rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1924 were Robert, John, William, James and Charles. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Leroy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Garlandpeak 1922
- Carrollpeak 1934
- Meltonpeak 1921
- Merrillpeak 1926
- Leonardpeak 1921
- Ralphpeak 1921
- Haywardpeak 1956
- Alvispeak 1924
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.