Larue vs Lary
American parents have registered 5,520 Larues since 1880, against 1,577 Larys. Larue is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Larue Lary
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 122 years in which either name was published, Larue for 106 years and Lary for 16 years. The lead changed hands 16 times.
- 1893–1954 Larue ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1955–1962 Lary ahead
- 1969–2025 Larue ahead, apart from 4 short spells
9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Larue | Lary | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 5,520 | 1,577 |
| Most in one year | 185 | 63 |
| Babies in 2025 | 8 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 1,700 | 920 |
| Median age today | 71 | 68 |
| Peak year | 1920 | 1946 |
| Best rank | 590th girls | 826th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 10,917th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1893 | 1918 |
| Girls / boys | 3,980 / 1,540 | 0 / 1,577 |
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 Larues alive today are over 71; half the Larys are over 68. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Larue Utah (22.7×), Idaho (11.8×), Pennsylvania (8.6×)
- Lary Michigan (8.6×), Texas (2.6×), California (2.0×)
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: Larue and Lary.