London vs Lonel
American parents have registered 54,779 Londons since 1880, against 6 Lonels. London is still ahead, with 863 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
London Lonel
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 111 years in which either name was published, London for 110 years and Lonel for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.
Side by side
| London | Lonel | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 54,779 | 6 |
| Most in one year | 3,879 | 6 |
| Babies in 2025 | 863 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 54,000 | 0 |
| Median age today | 12 | 93 |
| Peak year | 2013 | 1932 |
| Best rank | 85th girls | 3,361st boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 431st | unranked |
| First recorded | 1886 | 1932 |
| Girls / boys | 44,455 / 10,324 | 0 / 6 |
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 Lonels alive today are over 93; half the Londons are over 12. That is 81 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: London and Lonel.