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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Lei

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#16,279

up +370 places

2025 births

5

unchanged births

All-time births

652

1% of them in 2025

More common than

86%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1960
25 births
Best rank
#2,353
in 1956
First recorded
1937
#3,638 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1972
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
67 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 196025#2,407Peak
  2. 196225#2,440
  3. 195623#2,353
  4. 195819#2,713
  5. 196919#3,154

Rank over time

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

Best rank #2,353 in 1956 · peak births 25 in 1960

Boys and girls

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

● 5% boys■ 95% girls

31 boys · 652 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 Lei has ranked, decade by decade

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