London
London reached its high-water mark in 2013 at number 85, and has been recorded 54,779 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 431st. About 54,000 Londons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named London boys named London
Girls and boys called London
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London crossed from boys to girls in 1990, and has stayed there for 36 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 89% girls, and in 2025 it was 83%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 60 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 54,779
- Estimated living today
- 54,000
- Median age today
- 12
- Peak year
- 2013
- Best rank
- 85th
- Rank in 2025
- 431st
- First recorded
- 1886
- Girls / boys
- 44,455 / 10,324
How old the living Londons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 54,779 babies given the name since 1886, about 54,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 44,000 of them are children and 90 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 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 the name comes from
Origin a place name
From Middle English Londoun, from Old English Lunden, from Proto-Celtic via Latin Londinium – see for details.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Londons
- London Breed (born 1974)American politician (born 1974); Mayor of San Francisco from 2018 to 2025
- London Keyes (born 1989)American pornographic actress
- London on da Track (born 1991)American record producer
People named London with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where London is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, London is most concentrated in Nevada (2.6×), Georgia (2.4×), Utah (2.0×), Maryland (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2013
The most popular girls’ names the year London peaked:
London elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | London | 195 | 1,484th |
| England and Wales boys | London | 109 | 1,756th |
| France boys | London | 70 | 2,925th |
| France girls | London | 5 | 5,961st |
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.
Related names
London against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.