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Londyn vs Lonny

American parents have registered 27,777 Londyns since 1880, against 6,413 Lonnys. Londyn is still ahead, with 812 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Londyn Lonny

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 103 years in which either name was published, Lonny for 71 years and Londyn for 32 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Londyn Lonny
Total US births 27,7776,413
Most in one year 2,123213
Babies in 2025 8125
Estimated living today 28,0004,700
Median age today 960
Peak year 20141957
Best rank 154th girls531st boys
Rank in 2025 388th12,008th
First recorded 19891920
Girls / boys 27,245 / 53256 / 6,357

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 Lonnys alive today are over 60; half the Londyns are over 9. That is 51 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Londyn Lonny
England and Wales 213

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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