Ledger

What Ledger means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Ledger yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,168 in 2015, #553 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ledger?

US: Rising: up from #1168 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 608 boys got the name (#502 that year). First in the US records in 1923.

How common

• About 1 in 3,157 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 45,323 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in ND (3.58 per 1,000 boys), WV (1.79 per 1,000 boys), MT (1.59 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Ledger is #553 in the US and #3256 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Ledger were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

If you like Ledger

Boys

• Kash#286Editor’s note Up from #382 in 2015 to #286 in 2025 in the US
• Beckham#168“homestead”^*
• Asher#28Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 in 2025
• Judah#178Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025
• Silas#71Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #71 vs #585 in 2025
• Emerson#254Editor’s note Up from #300 in 2015 to #254 in 2025 in the US

For a sister

• Ruby#64Editor’s note Up from #83 in 2015 to #64 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 450 US girls in the 2025 records
• Lucy#24“light”^*
• Genevieve#148possibly “kin, family + woman, wife”^*
• Amelia#4“vigor, bravery”^*
• Norah#262Form of Eleanor, possibly meaning “other”^*
• Stella#52“star”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Ledger’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.