Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Lemual

#18,586 most common boys' name of all time · #48,726 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1915–1951

Rank among boys
#18,586
Rank overall
#48,726 of 105,966
First appeared
1915
Years on the list
10 of 146
All-time
60
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1925 #3,347
Best rank
#2,993 1951
Girls Boys peak 8/yr
19201940

Lemual first appears in 1915. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1951 — 8 8 #2,993
1947 — 5 5 #4,047
1944 — 6 6 #3,337
1940 — 6 6 #3,370
1939 — 6 6 #3,366
1928 — 5 5 #4,485
1925 — 8 8 #3,347
1921 — 5 5 #4,656
1919 — 6 6 #4,013
1915 — 5 5 #4,272