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Lamonte vs Lamorris

American parents have registered 3,417 Lamontes since 1880, against 272 Lamorrises. Lamonte is still ahead, with 15 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lamonte 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

Lamonte has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1915 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1955, when Lamonte had 20 and Lamorris had 9.

Side by side

  Lamonte Lamorris
Total US births 3,417272
Most in one year 9113
Babies in 2025 15under 5
Estimated living today 2,900240
Median age today 3744
Peak year 19711979
Best rank 857th boys3,168th boys
Rank in 2025 5,861stunranked
First recorded 19151955
Girls / boys 0 / 3,4170 / 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 Lamorrises alive today are over 44; half the Lamontes are over 37. That is 7 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: Lamonte and Lamorris.