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Londen vs Londyn

American parents have registered 27,777 Londyns since 1880, against 697 Londens. Londyn is still ahead, with 812 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Londen 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

Londyn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1989 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1994, when Londen had 13 and Londyn had 15.

Side by side

  Londen Londyn
Total US births 69727,777
Most in one year 612,123
Babies in 2025 under 5812
Estimated living today 69028,000
Median age today 149
Peak year 20112014
Best rank 3,350th girls154th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked388th
First recorded 19911989
Girls / boys 435 / 26227,245 / 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 Londens alive today are over 14; half the Londyns are over 9. That is 5 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: Londen and Londyn.