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Lemmie vs Lemont

American parents have registered 816 Lemmies since 1880, against 682 Lemonts. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lemmie against Lemont, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lemmie Lemont

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 110 years in which either name was published, Lemmie for 61 years and Lemont for 49 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Lemmie Lemont
Total US births 816682
Most in one year 2833
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 180570
Median age today 7251
Peak year 19311974
Best rank 1,538th boys1,520th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18891918
Girls / boys 150 / 6660 / 682

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 Lemmies alive today are over 72; half the Lemonts are over 51. That is 21 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: Lemmie and Lemont.