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Lambert vs Lamiya

American parents have registered 3,515 Lamberts since 1880, against 769 Lamiyas. Lambert is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lambert Lamiya

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 115 years and Lamiya for 29 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Lambert Lamiya
Total US births 3,515769
Most in one year 9851
Babies in 2025 1210
Estimated living today 1,300760
Median age today 5715
Peak year 19182011
Best rank 620th boys3,222nd girls
Rank in 2025 6,803rd9,457th
First recorded 18811990
Girls / boys 0 / 3,515769 / 0

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 Lamiyas are over 15. That is 42 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Lambert Lamiya
France 2,19540
England and Wales 356

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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