Lemar vs Lemon
American parents have registered 1,895 Lemars since 1880, against 1,430 Lemons. But in 2025 it was Lemon that was commoner, 30 babies to 14.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Lemar Lemon
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 140 years in which either name was published, Lemar for 71 years and Lemon for 69 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.
- 1882–1931 Lemon ahead
- 1932–1934 Lemar ahead
- 1935–1937 Lemon ahead
- 1938–1940 Lemar ahead
- 1945–1949 Lemon ahead
- 1950–2015 Lemar ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 2016–2025 Lemon ahead
4 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Lemar | Lemon | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,895 | 1,430 |
| Most in one year | 55 | 50 |
| Babies in 2025 | 14 | 30 |
| Estimated living today | 1,400 | 560 |
| Median age today | 39 | 8 |
| Peak year | 1979 | 1927 |
| Best rank | 1,241st boys | 1,350th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 6,143rd | unranked |
| First recorded | 1900 | 1882 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 1,895 | 359 / 1,071 |
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 Lemars alive today are over 39; half the Lemons are over 8. That is 31 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: Lemar and Lemon.