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Lemont vs Lempi

American parents have registered 682 Lemonts since 1880, against 367 Lempis. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lemont against Lempi, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lemont Lempi

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 95 years in which either name was published, Lemont for 61 years and Lempi for 34 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Lemont Lempi
Total US births 682367
Most in one year 3323
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 5701
Median age today 5199
Peak year 19741915
Best rank 1,520th boys1,523rd girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19181893
Girls / boys 0 / 682367 / 0

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 Lempis alive today are over 99; half the Lemonts are over 51. That is 48 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: Lemont and Lempi.