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Lona vs Londynn

American parents have registered 10,924 Lonas since 1880, against 3,141 Londynns. But in 2025 it was Londynn that was commoner, 113 babies to 12.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lona against Londynn, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lona Londynn

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 146 years in which either name was published, Lona for 128 years and Londynn for 18 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Lona Londynn
Total US births 10,9243,141
Most in one year 198246
Babies in 2025 12113
Estimated living today 4,2003,100
Median age today 658
Peak year 19182015
Best rank 481st girls1,068th girls
Rank in 2025 8,362nd1,777th
First recorded 18802004
Girls / boys 10,907 / 173,141 / 0

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 Lonas alive today are over 65; half the Londynns are over 8. That is 57 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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: Lona and Londynn.