Meaning and history
This name comes from the English word legend, meaning a story about the past or, by extension, a heroic figure in such a story, ultimately from Latin lego, “to read.”
20062006: 65 births, rank #2,037
2007: 94 births, rank #1,638
2008: 163 births, rank #1,119
2009: 191 births, rank #1,020
2010: 214 births, rank #940
20112011: 215 births, rank #928
2012: 263 births, rank #830
2013: 327 births, rank #717
2014: 523 births, rank #533
2015: 815 births, rank #391
20162016: 1,148 births, rank #310
2017: 1,461 births, rank #255
2018: 1,734 births, rank #216
2019: 2,578 births, rank #150
2020: 2,852 births, rank #127
20212021: 3,186 births, rank #118
2022: 2,901 births, rank #132
2023: 2,505 births, rank #145
2024: 2,288 births, rank #157
20252025: 1,862 births, rank #193
Legend moved from #157 to #193 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2021, with 3,186 births.