Meaning and background
The story behind Legend
Legend originally names a traditional story about people or events, often with uncertain historical truth. In everyday British English it also means a widely admired or exceptionally well-known person; friends sometimes use it as praise. As a dog name it borrows those contemporary word associations, not an independently established given-name etymology. The ordinary pronunciation is LEJ-und, with two syllables.
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About Legend
Recorded as a dog’s name
Legend appears in 24 dog licence records in the 2026 New York City dataset.
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Pronunciation and rhythm
/lɛdʒənd/
US English sound sequence, converted from the CMU dictionary. Stress marks are shown separately.
Stress on the first syllable in the recorded US readings.
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/lɛdʒənd/ · primary stress on syllable 1L EH1 JH AH0 N D
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Sources and research notes (2)
Gender association: NYC licence-period records. Any dog can use this name.
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — extract_year 2026 — Dog licence periods, not unique dogs; NYC only. No owner-level fields retrieved.
- Carnegie Mellon University / CMU Sphinx maintainers CMU US English Pronouncing Dictionary — US English dictionary readings; not owner-specific or exhaustive multilingual pronunciation
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