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Lamond vs Lamont

American parents have registered 24,189 Lamonts since 1880, against 735 Lamonds. Lamont is still ahead, with 47 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lamond against Lamont, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lamond Lamont

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

Lamont has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1888 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1937, when Lamond had 7 and Lamont had 41.

Side by side

  Lamond Lamont
Total US births 73524,189
Most in one year 421,060
Babies in 2025 under 547
Estimated living today 66021,000
Median age today 4247
Peak year 19721972
Best rank 1,285th boys214th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,718th
First recorded 19281888
Girls / boys 0 / 735165 / 24,024

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 Lamonts alive today are over 47; half the Lamonds are over 42. That is 5 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: Lamond and Lamont.