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Lamario vs Lamarr

American parents have registered 2,926 Lamarrs since 1880, against 578 Lamarios. Lamarr is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lamario against Lamarr, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lamario Lamarr

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

Lamarr has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1918 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Lamario had 5 and Lamarr had 7.

Side by side

  Lamario Lamarr
Total US births 5782,926
Most in one year 2973
Babies in 2025 under 59
Estimated living today 5502,400
Median age today 3541
Peak year 19871984
Best rank 2,057th boys1,042nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked8,243rd
First recorded 19731918
Girls / boys 0 / 57830 / 2,896

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 Lamarrs alive today are over 41; half the Lamarios are over 35. That is 6 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: Lamario and Lamarr.