Ledger

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 211 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
211
the US, 2017
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
#554
down from #502
UK popularity
#3256
6 babies

How Ledger has moved

US popularity rank, 2017–2025. Lower is more popular.
#422#739#1055201720212025#554

View as table
YearUS rank
2017#975
2018#832
2019#832
2020#630
2021#576
2022#593
2023#561
2024#502
2025#554

Ledger by the numbers

In 2025, 6 babies in England and Wales were named Ledger. In the US, 211 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.

What we can tell you about Ledger

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Ledger. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Ledgen12 in the US (2017)
  • Lesterfrom Leicester; the Roman fort85 in the US (2017)
  • Legen5 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Ledger

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