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Lamond vs Lamonte

American parents have registered 3,417 Lamontes since 1880, against 735 Lamonds. Lamonte is still ahead, with 15 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lamond 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

Of the 109 years in which either name was published, Lamonte for 107 years and Lamond for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Lamond Lamonte
Total US births 7353,417
Most in one year 4291
Babies in 2025 under 515
Estimated living today 6602,900
Median age today 4237
Peak year 19721971
Best rank 1,285th boys857th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked5,861st
First recorded 19281915
Girls / boys 0 / 7350 / 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 Lamonds alive today are over 42; half the Lamontes are over 37. 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 Lamonte.