How rare is the name Le?

7,000 people in the United States have the first name Le, about 1 in 43,147. It ranks #3,132 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

LE

#3,132

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
7,000
About
1 in 43,147
This common or more
81.7%
Who bears it

Of the 7,000 people named Le, 86.7% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander, 7.4% as White and 2.8% as Black. 67.3% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Le peaked in 1982, when 49 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18882014
Peak year
1982
Births that year
49
In 2014
7 ▼86%
Recorded as
used for both

At least 1,653 babies have been given the name since 1888. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Le by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #2,957. The largest share of babies named Le, 29.9%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1880s#2,9576
1910s#4,46687
1920s#4,666125
1930s#5,37478
1940s#5,27892
1950s#4,288172
1960s#4,003234
1970s#5,521191
1980s#4,734310
1990s#6,450272
2000s#18,81179
2010s#43,4487
Before 19010.4%
Greatest Generation 1901–2711.4%
Silent Generation 1928–459%
Baby boom 1946–6420.2%
Generation X 1965–8020.4%
Millennials 1981–9629.9%
Generation Z 1997–128.3%
2013 and later0.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Spelled almost the same

6 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Le, most common first.

Also a last name

As a last name, Le ranks #200 of 156,621, with 138,532 people. See Le as a last name

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