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Lamarion vs Lambert

American parents have registered 3,515 Lamberts since 1880, against 1,154 Lamarions. But in 2025 it was Lamarion that was commoner, 16 babies to 12.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lamarion against Lambert, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lamarion Lambert

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 144 years in which either name was published, Lambert for 119 years and Lamarion for 25 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Lamarion Lambert
Total US births 1,1543,515
Most in one year 11098
Babies in 2025 1612
Estimated living today 1,1001,300
Median age today 1657
Peak year 20051918
Best rank 1,362nd boys620th boys
Rank in 2025 5,608th6,803rd
First recorded 19921881
Girls / boys 0 / 1,1540 / 3,515

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 Lamberts alive today are over 57; half the Lamarions are over 16. That is 41 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.

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