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Lamarr vs Lamorris

American parents have registered 2,926 Lamarrs since 1880, against 272 Lamorrises. Lamarr is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lamarr Lamorris

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 1955, when Lamarr had 18 and Lamorris had 9.

Side by side

  Lamarr Lamorris
Total US births 2,926272
Most in one year 7313
Babies in 2025 9under 5
Estimated living today 2,400240
Median age today 4144
Peak year 19841979
Best rank 1,042nd boys3,168th boys
Rank in 2025 8,243rdunranked
First recorded 19181955
Girls / boys 30 / 2,8960 / 272

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 Lamorrises alive today are over 44; half the Lamarrs are over 41. That is 3 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: Lamarr and Lamorris.