London vs Lonney

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

London Lonney

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 113 years in which either name was published, London for 100 years and Lonney for 13 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

• 1886–1939 London ahead
• 1940 Lonney ahead
• 1941 London ahead
• 1942–1944 Lonney ahead
• 1945–1946 London ahead
• 1947–1948 Lonney ahead
• 1949–1950 London ahead
• 1951 Lonney ahead
• 1952–1953 London ahead
• 1954–1959 Lonney ahead
• 1960–2025 London ahead

Side by side

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 Lonneys alive today are over 63; half the Londons are over 12. That is 51 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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