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Lamart vs Lambert

American parents have registered 3,515 Lamberts since 1880, against 56 Lamarts. Lambert is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lamart against Lambert, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lamart 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

Lambert has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1881 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1971, when Lamart had 9 and Lambert had 24.

Side by side

  Lamart Lambert
Total US births 563,515
Most in one year 998
Babies in 2025 under 512
Estimated living today 501,300
Median age today 5457
Peak year 19711918
Best rank 3,370th boys620th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked6,803rd
First recorded 19561881
Girls / boys 0 / 560 / 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 Lamarts are over 54. 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: Lamart and Lambert.