Lear
Recorded for both sexesGreatest Generation2025 rank
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not recorded in 2025
2025 births
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All-time births
491
peak year 1920
More common than
83%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1920
- 23 births
- Best rank
- #1,042
- in 1886
- First recorded
- 1886
- #1,042 that year
- Last recorded
- 1966
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1922
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 53 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 192023#1,783Peak
- 191920#1,890
- 192317#2,223
- 192116#2,334
- 192816#2,243
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #1,042 in 1886 · peak births 23 in 1920
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 7% boys■ 93% girls
36 boys · 491 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Lear has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.