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Loney vs Lonnie

American parents have registered 101,481 Lonnies since 1880, against 785 Loneys. Lonnie is still ahead, with 109 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Loney Lonnie

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

Lonnie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1903, when Loney had 20 and Lonnie had 175.

Side by side

  Loney Lonnie
Total US births 785101,481
Most in one year 332,237
Babies in 2025 under 5109
Estimated living today 12057,000
Median age today 6962
Peak year 19151947
Best rank 1,553rd boys137th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,837th
First recorded 18831880
Girls / boys 280 / 5056,995 / 94,486

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 Lonnies are over 62. That is 7 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: Loney and Lonnie.