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Lendell vs Lennon

American parents have registered 20,579 Lennons since 1880, against 690 Lendells. Lennon is still ahead, with 1,729 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lendell against Lennon, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lendell Lennon

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 109 years in which either name was published, Lennon for 85 years and Lendell for 24 years. The lead changed hands 18 times.

12 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Lendell Lennon
Total US births 69020,579
Most in one year 211,730
Babies in 2025 under 51,729
Estimated living today 43020,000
Median age today 606
Peak year 19502025
Best rank 1,615th boys214th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked214th
First recorded 19171913
Girls / boys 0 / 69012,576 / 8,003

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 Lendells alive today are over 60; half the Lennons are over 6. That is 54 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: Lendell and Lennon.