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Londell vs Londyn

American parents have registered 27,777 Londyns since 1880, against 649 Londells. Londyn is still ahead, with 812 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Londell against Londyn, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Londell Londyn

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 82 years in which either name was published, Londell for 47 years and Londyn for 35 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Londell Londyn
Total US births 64927,777
Most in one year 202,123
Babies in 2025 under 5812
Estimated living today 54028,000
Median age today 469
Peak year 19732014
Best rank 2,036th boys154th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked388th
First recorded 19231989
Girls / boys 0 / 64927,245 / 532

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 Londells alive today are over 46; half the Londyns are over 9. That is 37 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: Londell and Londyn.