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How popular is the name Lear?
Births per year, rank history and how many Lears are alive today.
Lear (male) is a rare spelling of the boys' name Llyr in England and Wales, ranked 5137th in 2025 and given to 3 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2024, when 5 babies were given the name, the 3689th most popular that year.
Across all spellings of the name, the Llyr you are most likely to meet is around 14 years old - or else around 29: the name has two living generations. Half of all Llyrs born in England and Wales are between 13 and 29, and there are at least 320 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Llyr - on average, only one in every 947 such rooms contains a Llyr.
How many babies are named Lear each year?
Includes all spellings: Lear, Llyr. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Lear spelling rank?
Where does the Llyr spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Lear most popular?
The most popular form of the name, Llyr, peaked in 2008, when 17 babies in England and Wales were given the name. The Lear spelling itself peaked in 2024, with 5 babies.
How many people are called Lear?
At least 320 people named Lear in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Lear?
Most living Lears are between 13 and 29; the most common age is about 14. There is a second cluster around 29.
Is Lear becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.