Lamont
About 24,189 American babies have been named Lamont since 1888, most of them around 1972. In 2025 it ranked 2,718th. About 21,000 Lamonts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 47.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lamont boys named Lamont
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 24,189
- Estimated living today
- 21,000
- Median age today
- 47
- Peak year
- 1972
- Best rank
- 214th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,718th
- First recorded
- 1888
- Girls / boys
- 165 / 24,024
How old the living Lamonts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 24,189 babies given the name since 1888, about 21,000 are alive — 85 in every hundred. Roughly 2,100 of them are children and 2,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1978 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Lamonts
- Lamont Dozier (1941–2022)American singer-songwriter
- Lamont Johnson (1922–2010)American actor and film director
- Lamont Bentley (1973–2005)American actor
- Lamont Hamilton (born 1984)American basketball player
People named Lamont with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lamont is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lamont is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (6.1×), Maryland (4.1×), New Jersey (2.4×), Virginia (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1972
The most popular boys’ names the year Lamont peaked:
Lamont elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Lamont | 9 | 4,810th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Lamont against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.