Leamon
Masculine · “sweetheart”
Leman was a Middle English word for a lover, and it is dead now except in old poetry. It comes from leof man, dear person, and English used it for centuries of sweethearts before it acquired a coarser sense and dropped out of the language entirely.
How old is the name Leamon?
Leamon first appears in US birth records in 1891 — 134 years ago. The typical Leamon alive today was born around 1938, making them about 87 years old. About 1,000 people named Leamon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Leamon most popular?
Leamon peaked in 1907, reaching #735 nationally. See the whole 1907 chart.
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Where it comes from
From leof man to Leamon
The story of Leamon
The word is all over medieval English verse and then goes badly wrong: by the sixteenth century a leman is specifically an illicit lover, and by the eighteenth the word is gone. What survives is the surname, which had attached itself to families before the sense shifted, and which crossed to America and moved to the front of the name in the nineteenth century. The ea spelling is the American one and it does useful work: written as Lemon the name would be read as the fruit, and the extra vowel keeps it a name.
Meaningscholars disagree
sweetheart, beloved
If the name descends from the Middle English word, the two halves are dear and person. If it comes instead from the surname Lemon, which may be from the same word or from the fruit, the line is the same at one remove.
How the name formed
- leof man
- leman
- Leamon
Pronouncing Leamon
LEE-mun
Two syllables with the weight at the front, the second reduced to a hum. There is no second reading to correct.
Nicknames for Leamon
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1891
- Most boys named
- 192164 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #735reached in 1907
- Change vs 2008
- 0.0%5 in 2019, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Leamons among us
people named Leamon are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Leamon sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Both syllables are readable, so the name is said correctly at sight.
- The ea spelling keeps it clear of the fruit, which the plainer spelling does not.
- It is genuinely uncommon while being entirely legible.
- It will be heard as Lemon and written that way by anyone taking it down quickly.
- The word behind it is long dead and will need explaining if it comes up.
- It reads clearly as a name of the turn of the twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Leamons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Leamon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Leamon in 2025?
- Leamon is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
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- Leamon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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