London vs Lonell

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

London Lonell

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 116 years in which either name was published, London for 88 years and Lonell for 28 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.

• 1886–1928 London ahead
• 1935–1962 Lonell ahead, apart from 2 short spells
• 1963–2025 London ahead

8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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 Lonells alive today are over 51; half the Londons are over 12. That is 39 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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