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Londyn vs Loney

American parents have registered 27,777 Londyns since 1880, against 785 Loneys. Londyn is still ahead, with 812 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Londyn 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 105 years in which either name was published, Loney for 69 years and Londyn for 36 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Londyn Loney
Total US births 27,777785
Most in one year 2,12333
Babies in 2025 812under 5
Estimated living today 28,000120
Median age today 969
Peak year 20141915
Best rank 154th girls1,553rd boys
Rank in 2025 388thunranked
First recorded 19891883
Girls / boys 27,245 / 532280 / 505

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 Londyns are over 9. That is 60 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: Londyn and Loney.