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Lamarion vs Lamarr

American parents have registered 2,926 Lamarrs since 1880, against 1,154 Lamarions. But in 2025 it was Lamarion that was commoner, 16 babies to 9.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lamarion against Lamarr, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lamarion 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 82 years and Lamarion for 23 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Lamarion Lamarr
Total US births 1,1542,926
Most in one year 11073
Babies in 2025 169
Estimated living today 1,1002,400
Median age today 1641
Peak year 20051984
Best rank 1,362nd boys1,042nd boys
Rank in 2025 5,608th8,243rd
First recorded 19921918
Girls / boys 0 / 1,15430 / 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 Lamarions are over 16. That is 25 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: Lamarion and Lamarr.