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Leroy

As a boy's name, Leroy traces back to French, where it is understood to mean "The king". It was at its most popular in the 1920s and is rarely chosen now. As things stand now, it is widely recognized. It has appeared in U.S. birth records in nearly every decade since 1900, a genuinely long run.

FrenchThe king
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Births by decade
1900s
4,305
1910s
21,389
1920s
38,113
1930s
36,480
1940s
34,040
1950s
24,767
1960s
15,328
1970s
8,470
1980s
5,652
1990s
3,552
2000s
2,122
2010s
1,675
Peaked in the 1920s · 195,893 total U.S. births since 1900