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Lambert vs Lamond

American parents have registered 3,515 Lamberts since 1880, against 735 Lamonds. Lambert is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lambert Lamond

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 122 years and Lamond for 22 years. The lead changed hands 18 times.

12 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Lambert Lamond
Total US births 3,515735
Most in one year 9842
Babies in 2025 12under 5
Estimated living today 1,300660
Median age today 5742
Peak year 19181972
Best rank 620th boys1,285th boys
Rank in 2025 6,803rdunranked
First recorded 18811928
Girls / boys 0 / 3,5150 / 735

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 Lamonds are over 42. That is 15 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: Lambert and Lamond.