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Lamont vs Lamorris

American parents have registered 24,189 Lamonts since 1880, against 272 Lamorrises. Lamont is still ahead, with 47 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lamont Lamorris

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 1955, when Lamont had 206 and Lamorris had 9.

Side by side

  Lamont Lamorris
Total US births 24,189272
Most in one year 1,06013
Babies in 2025 47under 5
Estimated living today 21,000240
Median age today 4744
Peak year 19721979
Best rank 214th boys3,168th boys
Rank in 2025 2,718thunranked
First recorded 18881955
Girls / boys 165 / 24,0240 / 272

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 Lamorrises are over 44. That is 3 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: Lamont and Lamorris.