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Loney vs Lonny

American parents have registered 6,413 Lonnys since 1880, against 785 Loneys. Lonny is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Loney against Lonny, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Loney Lonny

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 129 years in which either name was published, Lonny for 90 years and Loney for 39 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Loney Lonny
Total US births 7856,413
Most in one year 33213
Babies in 2025 under 55
Estimated living today 1204,700
Median age today 6960
Peak year 19151957
Best rank 1,553rd boys531st boys
Rank in 2025 unranked12,008th
First recorded 18831920
Girls / boys 280 / 50556 / 6,357

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 Lonnys are over 60. That is 9 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 Lonny.