Lennox vs Lenzie
American parents have registered 19,739 Lennoxes since 1880, against 557 Lenzies. Lennox is still ahead, with 1,552 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Lennox Lenzie
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 106 years in which either name was published, Lennox for 59 years and Lenzie for 47 years. The lead changed hands 27 times.
- 1913–1947 Lenzie ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1950–1952 Lennox ahead
- 1956–1959 Lenzie ahead
- 1968–2025 Lennox ahead, apart from 3 short spells
20 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Lennox | Lenzie | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 19,739 | 557 |
| Most in one year | 1,915 | 16 |
| Babies in 2025 | 1,552 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 20,000 | 310 |
| Median age today | 5 | 36 |
| Peak year | 2022 | 1937 |
| Best rank | 248th boys | 1,913th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 289th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1918 | 1913 |
| Girls / boys | 5,409 / 14,330 | 184 / 373 |
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 Lenzies alive today are over 36; half the Lennoxes are over 5. That is 31 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: Lennox and Lenzie.