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Lennon vs Lenor

American parents have registered 20,579 Lennons since 1880, against 383 Lenors. Lennon is still ahead, with 1,729 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lennon against Lenor, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lennon Lenor

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 111 years in which either name was published, Lennon for 94 years and Lenor for 17 years. The lead changed hands 18 times.

12 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Lennon Lenor
Total US births 20,579383
Most in one year 1,73017
Babies in 2025 1,729under 5
Estimated living today 20,000180
Median age today 666
Peak year 20251954
Best rank 214th girls2,695th girls
Rank in 2025 214thunranked
First recorded 19131915
Girls / boys 12,576 / 8,003383 / 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 Lenors alive today are over 66; half the Lennons are over 6. That is 60 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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