Lamarr
Lamarr was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,634 among boys’ names; 2,926 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,420 Americans named Lamarr and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 29 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lamarr by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lamarr?
#8,634 among boys’ names, 2025
Lamarr fell from #4,636 in 2015 to #8,634 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 5.3 per million.
73 babies in 1984, the peak
Lamarr peaked in 1984, when 73 boys were given it, #1,048 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,634 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,768 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,334 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,697 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,531 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,156 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 19 | #5,066 | 10.6 |
| 2018 | 24 | #4,302 | 13.2 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,525 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 21 | #4,707 | 11.1 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,636 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 20 | #4,790 | 10.4 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,898 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 30 | #3,589 | 15.8 |
| 2011 | 28 | #3,742 | 14.7 |
| 2010 | 38 | #3,053 | 19.8 |
| 2009 | 30 | #3,602 | 15.1 |
| 2008 | 26 | #3,994 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,852 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,439 | 10.2 |
| 2005 | 20 | #4,397 | 10.0 |
| 2004 | 25 | #3,704 | 12.6 |
| 2003 | 24 | #3,681 | 12.1 |
| 2002 | 29 | #3,146 | 14.9 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,802 | 8.2 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,478 | 12.2 |
| 1999 | 41 | #2,248 | 21.4 |
| 1998 | 28 | #2,893 | 14.6 |
| 1997 | 30 | #2,651 | 15.9 |
| 1996 | 34 | #2,355 | 17.9 |
| 1995 | 34 | #2,322 | 17.9 |
| 1994 | 32 | #2,424 | 16.6 |
| 1993 | 36 | #2,183 | 18.4 |
| 1992 | 52 | #1,663 | 26.0 |
| 1991 | 50 | #1,658 | 24.7 |
| 1990 | 53 | #1,573 | 25.8 |
| 1989 | 67 | #1,339 | 33.5 |
| 1988 | 64 | #1,285 | 33.4 |
| 1987 | 52 | #1,414 | 27.9 |
| 1986 | 54 | #1,341 | 29.3 |
| 1985 | 52 | #1,339 | 28.1 |
| 1984 | 73 | #1,048 | 40.4 |
| 1983 | 69 | #1,071 | 38.5 |
| 1982 | 66 | #1,129 | 36.4 |
| 1981 | 52 | #1,285 | 29.0 |
| 1980 | 58 | #1,209 | 32.5 |
| 1979 | 69 | #1,074 | 40.1 |
| 1978 | 60 | #1,140 | 36.5 |
| 1977 | 64 | #1,087 | 38.9 |
| 1976 | 44 | #1,339 | 28.0 |
| 1975 | 48 | #1,236 | 30.7 |
| 1974 | 37 | #1,430 | 23.5 |
| 1973 | 55 | #1,100 | 35.3 |
| 1972 | 46 | #1,223 | 28.4 |
| 1971 | 47 | #1,207 | 26.6 |
| 1970 | 52 | #1,149 | 28.0 |
| 1969 | 40 | #1,259 | 22.4 |
| 1968 | 38 | #1,240 | 21.9 |
| 1967 | 26 | #1,526 | 14.9 |
| 1966 | 31 | #1,388 | 17.4 |
| 1965 | 33 | #1,348 | 17.7 |
| 1964 | 19 | #1,874 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 19 | #1,867 | 9.4 |
| 1962 | 24 | #1,650 | 11.6 |
| 1961 | 26 | #1,586 | 12.2 |
| 1960 | 35 | #1,350 | 16.4 |
| 1959 | 20 | #1,837 | 9.4 |
| 1958 | 17 | #1,989 | 8.0 |
| 1957 | 25 | #1,609 | 11.6 |
| 1956 | 17 | #1,985 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 18 | #1,882 | 8.7 |
| 1954 | 20 | #1,734 | 9.8 |
| 1953 | 20 | #1,746 | 10.1 |
| 1952 | 28 | #1,445 | 14.4 |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,474 | 13.8 |
| 1950 | 19 | #1,727 | 10.6 |
| 1949 | 20 | #1,688 | 11.3 |
| 1948 | 20 | #1,684 | 11.4 |
| 1947 | 19 | #1,760 | 10.4 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,093 | 8.0 |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,557 | 14.1 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,753 | 5.9 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,342 | 7.7 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,000 | 10.1 |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,430 | 18.7 |
| 1940 | 14 | #1,944 | 12.1 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,609 | 16.3 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,265 | 9.9 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,591 | 8.4 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,366 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 8 | #2,832 | 7.7 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,496 | 5.8 |
| 1933 | 16 | #1,797 | 16.1 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,235 | 6.7 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,594 | 5.8 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,895 | 8.2 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,405 | 6.5 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,546 | 6.3 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,642 | 6.2 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,138 | 13.5 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,036 | 8.1 |
| 1924 | 18 | #1,937 | 15.9 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,702 | 10.0 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,585 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,505 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lamarr a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,926 Americans recorded as Lamarr, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lamarr: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lamarr, and how old are they?
2,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 2,926 Americans ever recorded as Lamarr. The median Lamarr alive today is 42 years old; half are between 29 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 1,704 people named Lamarr (91 women and girls, 1,613 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,475 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 47 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 270 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 683 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 796 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 430 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 194 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Lamarr born?
The states with the most babies named Lamarr are California, Michigan and Illinois, with 61% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 209 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 204 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 124 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 122 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 116 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 43 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 32 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Missouri | 18 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Utah | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Lamarr is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lamarr is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1918 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lamarr with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Lamarr?
Lamarr is a less common spelling of Lamar: SSA has recorded 2,926 Lamarr and 35,251 Lamar since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 38,757 babies since 1880, Lamarr is the second most given (7.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 174 babies (5.2%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lamarr
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lamarr and names like it
- Compare Lamarr and LamarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLamarr peaked in 1984.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lamarr since 1910.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Lamarr.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lamarr alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.