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Lachlan vs Lacinda

American parents have registered 6,398 Lachlans since 1880, against 922 Lacindas. Lachlan is still ahead, with 477 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lachlan against Lacinda, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lachlan Lacinda

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 81 years in which either name was published, Lacinda for 48 years and Lachlan for 33 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Lachlan Lacinda
Total US births 6,398922
Most in one year 47739
Babies in 2025 477under 5
Estimated living today 6,300820
Median age today 856
Peak year 20251963
Best rank 606th boys1,867th girls
Rank in 2025 606thunranked
First recorded 19521943
Girls / boys 290 / 6,108922 / 0

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 Lacindas alive today are over 56; half the Lachlans are over 8. That is 48 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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