Baby name

Lem

Boy

Classic name

Lem peaked in 1917, when 1 baby in 51,453 was given the name. Few fads, plenty of staying power: it appears in 90 years out of 146. No births recorded in 2025: the name is no longer given, or too rarely to be published.

1,297births since 1880

1910sgeneration

No. 1062rank at its peak, in 1917

Where babies named Lem are born

1917

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The darker the blue, the more common Lem is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.

One letter apart

Leo 259,988
Lee 233,627
Len 4,514
Clem 4,275
Lex 3,995
Les 3,448

Names from the same era

Hale · Aleck · Alfonse · Reinhold · Gasper · Orvin

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