Lige
Lige is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 328th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191530 births
- Best rank
- #328in 1881
- Since 1880
- 1,280people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,280 boys have been named Lige in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 30 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 30 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1918, and the 1910s alone account for 17%. It has spent 31 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Lige | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 175 | |
| 1890s | 159 | |
| 1900s | 126 | |
| 1910s | 215 | |
| 1920s | 188 | |
| 1930s | 130 | |
| 1940s | 107 | |
| 1950s | 82 | |
| 1960s | 40 | |
| 1970s | 21 | |
| 1980s | 21 | |
| 2000s | 16 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Lige was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1915 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Lige
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Edpeak 1959
- Ikepeak 1953
- Ciceropeak 1920
- Charleypeak 1920
- Lempeak 1917
- Dockpeak 1920
- Simpeak 1918
- Gusspeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.