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Londa vs Londyn

American parents have registered 27,777 Londyns since 1880, against 1,669 Londas. Londyn is still ahead, with 812 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Londa against Londyn, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Londa Londyn

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 94 years in which either name was published, Londa for 58 years and Londyn for 36 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Londa Londyn
Total US births 1,66927,777
Most in one year 772,123
Babies in 2025 under 5812
Estimated living today 1,40028,000
Median age today 619
Peak year 19602014
Best rank 1,248th girls154th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked388th
First recorded 19161989
Girls / boys 1,669 / 027,245 / 532

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 Londas alive today are over 61; half the Londyns are over 9. That is 52 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: Londa and Londyn.