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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Len

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#9,377

up +134 places

2025 births

8

unchanged births

All-time births

4,514

0% of them in 2025

More common than

96%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1960
121 births
Best rank
#514
in 1885
First recorded
1880
#780 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1954
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
142 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1960121#713Peak
  2. 1958119#690
  3. 1970114#773
  4. 1961109#739
  5. 195996#783

Rank over time

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

Best rank #514 in 1885 · peak births 121 in 1960

Boys and girls

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

● 98% boys■ 2% girls

4,514 boys · 102 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 Len has ranked, decade by decade

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