Legacy
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- LEG-uh-see
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #662 for girls
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Legacy is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “inheritance, something handed down”. In 2025 it ranked 662nd for girls in the US (429 babies).
What does Legacy mean?
English: English word name, via Old French from Medieval Latin
“inheritance, something handed down”
An English word for money or property left in a will, or anything handed down from the past.
Is Legacy a girl's or a boy's name?
Legacy is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 429 girls and 244 boys in the US.
How popular is Legacy in the UK?
No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2021, with 3 boys.
Legacy in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | #5,193 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,017 |
| 2021 | 3 | #4,989 |
How popular is Legacy in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #662among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 429about 1 in 3,700 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 2% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 429 girls in the US were named Legacy, making it the 662nd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 500th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 725 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994. 244 boys were also named Legacy in 2025 (955th for boys).
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 4 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Legacy than any year since 2018.
Half of all the girls named Legacy in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 585 girls in the US were given Legacy or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #518, up from #662 for this spelling alone.
Girls were 84% of the babies named Legacy in the US in 2002, and 64% in 2025.
Legacy in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 429 | #662 |
| 2024 | 493 | #610 |
| 2023 | 559 | #540 |
| 2022 | 655 | #484 |
| 2021 | 725 | #434 |
| 2020 | 612 | #500 |
| 2019 | 491 | #615 |
| 2018 | 347 | #786 |
| 2017 | 280 | #942 |
| 2016 | 254 | #1,039 |
| 2015 | 163 | #1,416 |
| 2014 | 106 | #1,892 |
| 2013 | 80 | #2,305 |
| 2012 | 77 | #2,401 |
| 2011 | 55 | #3,050 |
| 2010 | 70 | #2,589 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,106 |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,359 |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,942 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,708 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,795 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,551 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,663 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,494 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,627 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,486 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,635 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,119 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,278 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,275 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,548 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,116 |
Names like Legacy
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Brody Kody Cody Covey Sonny Lenny Rory Riley Deacon Brady Blakely Cassian
Other spellings of Legacy
More English names
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Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Legacy: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/legacy, updated 20 October 2026.