Lon
About 9,856 American babies have been named Lon since 1880, most of them around 1948. It has not appeared in the national data since 2022. About 5,300 Lons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 64.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lon boys named Lon
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 9,856
- Estimated living today
- 5,300
- Median age today
- 64
- Peak year
- 1948
- Best rank
- 411th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 20 / 9,836
How old the living Lons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 9,856 babies given the name since 1880, about 5,300 are alive — 54 in every hundred. Roughly 80 of them are children and 2,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1961 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 Lons
- Lon Nol (1913–1985)Cambodian Field Marshal
- Lon Chaney (1883–1930)American actor
- Lon Chaney Jr. (1906–1973)American actor
- Lon L. Fuller (1902–1978)American philosopher of law
- Lon McCallister (1923–2005)American actor
People named Lon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lon is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lon is most concentrated in Minnesota (3.2×), Iowa (3.1×), Wisconsin (2.6×), Washington (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1948
The most popular boys’ names the year Lon peaked:
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Lon 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.