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Lennox vs Lennyn

American parents have registered 19,739 Lennoxes since 1880, against 930 Lennyns. Lennox is still ahead, with 1,552 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lennox Lennyn

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

Lennox has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1918 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2001, when Lennox had 22 and Lennyn had 10.

Side by side

  Lennox Lennyn
Total US births 19,739930
Most in one year 1,915142
Babies in 2025 1,552142
Estimated living today 20,000930
Median age today 54
Peak year 20222025
Best rank 248th boys1,548th girls
Rank in 2025 289th1,548th
First recorded 19182001
Girls / boys 5,409 / 14,330809 / 121

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.

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: Lennox and Lennyn.