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Lamarion vs Lamonte

American parents have registered 3,417 Lamontes since 1880, against 1,154 Lamarions. But in 2025 it was Lamarion that was commoner, 16 babies to 15.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lamarion Lamonte

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 107 years in which either name was published, Lamonte for 88 years and Lamarion for 19 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Lamarion Lamonte
Total US births 1,1543,417
Most in one year 11091
Babies in 2025 1615
Estimated living today 1,1002,900
Median age today 1637
Peak year 20051971
Best rank 1,362nd boys857th boys
Rank in 2025 5,608th5,861st
First recorded 19921915
Girls / boys 0 / 1,1540 / 3,417

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 Lamontes alive today are over 37; half the Lamarions are over 16. That is 21 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 Lamonte.