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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Leary

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

194

peak year 1926

More common than

71%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1926
11 births
Best rank
#2,380
in 1936
First recorded
1919
#4,515 that year
Last recorded
1961
no later published record
Average birth year
1939
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
29 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 192611#2,658Peak
  2. 194811#2,389
  3. 193610#2,380
  4. 19238#3,326
  5. 19288#3,246

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #2,380 in 1936 · peak births 11 in 1926

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 92% boys■ 8% girls

194 boys · 16 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 Leary has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.