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Landon vs Laneisha

American parents have registered 187,785 Landons since 1880, against 616 Laneishas. Landon is still ahead, with 2,868 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Landon against Laneisha, 1880 to 2025 0 3k 6k 9k 12k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Landon Laneisha

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

Landon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1980, when Landon had 380 and Laneisha had 24.

Side by side

  Landon Laneisha
Total US births 187,785616
Most in one year 10,51038
Babies in 2025 2,868under 5
Estimated living today 184,000600
Median age today 1434
Peak year 20101992
Best rank 33rd boys3,036th girls
Rank in 2025 127thunranked
First recorded 18821972
Girls / boys 1,182 / 186,603616 / 0

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 Laneishas alive today are over 34; half the Landons are over 14. That is 20 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Landon and Laneisha.