as a First Name
(Scandinavian) From Old Norse Leifr, a short form of various compound names containing the second element leifr ‘heir, descendant’.
| 2,831st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 4,860
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Alaska
- has the most people named Leif per capita
- 1979
- marked the height of its popularity
0%
100%
3%
55+
55+
47%
30-54
30-54
17%
13-29
13-29
34%
0-12
0-12
Top state populations
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