London vs Loney

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

London Loney

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 134 years in which either name was published, London for 84 years and Loney for 50 years. The lead changed hands 19 times.

• 1889–1932 Loney ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1933–1935 London ahead
• 1936–1946 Loney ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1947–2025 London ahead, apart from one short spell

13 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 Loneys alive today are over 69; half the Londons are over 12. That is 57 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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