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Lamarr

The boy's name Lamarr has been in the national records since 1918, with 2,926 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 8,243rd. About 2,400 Lamarrs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 41.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Lamarr boys named Lamarr

By the numbers

Total US births
2,926
Estimated living today
2,400
Median age today
41
Peak year
1984
Best rank
1,042nd
Rank in 2025
8,243rd
First recorded
1918
Girls / boys
30 / 2,896

How old the living Lamarrs are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,926 babies given the name since 1918, about 2,400 are alive — 83 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1984 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Lamarr is most common

  • MI1.61
  • IL0.75
  • OH0.75
  • CA0.62
  • NY0.47
  • NJ0.35
  • MO0.24
  • PA0.24
  • UT0.18
  • VA0.07

Across the country Lamarr is recorded 0.27 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Lamarrs are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.

  • CA209
  • MI204
  • IL124
  • NY122
  • OH116
  • PA43
  • NJ32
  • MO18
  • UT5
  • VA5

Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.

Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.

Names of 1984

The most popular boys’ names the year Lamarr peaked:

All the names of 1984

Lamarr elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Lamarr 34 1,799th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.