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Lareina vs Laron

American parents have registered 5,312 Larons since 1880, against 745 Lareinas. But in 2025 it was Lareina that was commoner, 16 babies to 14.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lareina against Laron, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lareina Laron

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 92 years in which either name was published, Laron for 91 years and Lareina for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Lareina Laron
Total US births 7455,312
Most in one year 31139
Babies in 2025 1614
Estimated living today 7304,900
Median age today 2034
Peak year 20181990
Best rank 4,458th girls869th boys
Rank in 2025 6,838th6,143rd
First recorded 19681915
Girls / boys 745 / 0119 / 5,193

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 Larons alive today are over 34; half the Lareinas are over 20. That is 14 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: Lareina and Laron.