Lamark — boys' name

What the Data Says About Lamark

The Social Security Administration has registered 490 babies named Lamark between 1957 and 2009, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Lamark currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1972, when 25 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lamark performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 145 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Lamark shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Lamark in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lamark in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 490 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.