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Lamarion vs Lamont

American parents have registered 24,189 Lamonts since 1880, against 1,154 Lamarions. Lamont is still ahead, with 47 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lamarion against Lamont, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lamarion Lamont

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

Lamont has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1888 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2005, when Lamarion had 110 and Lamont had 166.

Side by side

  Lamarion Lamont
Total US births 1,15424,189
Most in one year 1101,060
Babies in 2025 1647
Estimated living today 1,10021,000
Median age today 1647
Peak year 20051972
Best rank 1,362nd boys214th boys
Rank in 2025 5,608th2,718th
First recorded 19921888
Girls / boys 0 / 1,154165 / 24,024

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 Lamonts alive today are over 47; half the Lamarions are over 16. That is 31 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 Lamont.