Lennox vs Lenzy
American parents have registered 19,739 Lennoxes since 1880, against 521 Lenzys. Lennox is still ahead, with 1,552 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Lennox Lenzy
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, Lennox for 58 years and Lenzy for 51 years. The lead changed hands 15 times.
- 1882–1958 Lenzy ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1959–1961 Lennox ahead
- 1965–1967 Lenzy ahead
- 1970–2025 Lennox ahead, apart from 2 short spells
8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Lennox | Lenzy | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 19,739 | 521 |
| Most in one year | 1,915 | 15 |
| Babies in 2025 | 1,552 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 20,000 | 220 |
| Median age today | 5 | 60 |
| Peak year | 2022 | 1917 |
| Best rank | 248th boys | 1,986th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 289th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1918 | 1882 |
| Girls / boys | 5,409 / 14,330 | 54 / 467 |
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 Lenzys alive today are over 60; half the Lennoxes are over 5. That is 55 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 Lenzy.