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Lamarcus vs Lamarr

American parents have registered 3,008 Lamarcuses since 1880, against 2,926 Lamarrs. Lamarcus is still ahead, with 14 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lamarcus against Lamarr, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lamarcus Lamarr

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 105 years in which either name was published, Lamarr for 60 years and Lamarcus for 45 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Lamarcus Lamarr
Total US births 3,0082,926
Most in one year 9973
Babies in 2025 149
Estimated living today 2,9002,400
Median age today 3041
Peak year 19891984
Best rank 1,037th boys1,042nd boys
Rank in 2025 6,143rd8,243rd
First recorded 19671918
Girls / boys 0 / 3,00830 / 2,896

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Lamarrs alive today are over 41; half the Lamarcuses are over 30. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lamarcus and Lamarr.