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Lamart vs Lamonte

American parents have registered 3,417 Lamontes since 1880, against 56 Lamarts. Lamonte is still ahead, with 15 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lamart 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

Lamonte has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1915 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1956, when Lamart had 8 and Lamonte had 28.

Side by side

  Lamart Lamonte
Total US births 563,417
Most in one year 991
Babies in 2025 under 515
Estimated living today 502,900
Median age today 5437
Peak year 19711971
Best rank 3,370th boys857th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked5,861st
First recorded 19561915
Girls / boys 0 / 560 / 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 Lamarts alive today are over 54; half the Lamontes are over 37. That is 17 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 Lamonte.