Lem
About Lem
Lem is a corn-cob pipe-smoking, back porch-rocking nickname name. But we predict as Sam and Gus become ho-hum, more parents will look to Lem.
As of October 2026, Lem ranked #5930 in US births in 1983 SSA, peaked at #345 in 1883.
Editor's take: The name Lem is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "devoted to God".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Lem on lists
Famous Lems
- Lemuel "Lem" Barney (born 1945)
American football player
- Lem Billings (1916–1981)
John F. Kennedy's friend
- Lem Burnham (born 1947)
American football player
- Lem Cross (1872–1930)
American Major League Baseball player
- George Lewis "Lem" Davis (1914–1970)
American jazz saxophonist
- Anton Lemuel Lem Dobbs (born 1959)
British,American screenwriter
- Lemuel Lem Johnson (1909–1989)
American jazz saxophonist
- Thomas Lemuel Lem Johns (1925–2014)
American Secret Service agent present during the assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Lem T. Jones
Jr. (1924–1995), American politician
- Lem Overpeck (1911–2003)
American politician, Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota
- Lem Tucker (1938–1991)
American journalist
- Lem Winchester (1928–1961)
American jazz vibraphone player
- Stanisław Lem
Polish writer of science fiction, author of ''Solaris''
Lem in pop culture
- Lem Hewitt
character from the TV show Better Off Ted
- Lem
minor character in the TV show Arrested Development
- Lem Graham
son of Ben and Ma Graham from "Love Comes Softly" series
- 3836 Lem
a minor planet