Lamont
Lamont was given to 47 boys in 2025, #2,739 among boys’ names; 24,189 Americans have been recorded with it since 1888 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 20,400 Americans named Lamont and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 33 and 56.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lamont by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lamont?
#2,739 among boys’ names, 2025
Lamont fell from #1,425 in 2015 to #2,739 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 63.1 to 27.5 per million.
1,060 babies in 1972, the peak
Lamont peaked in 1972, when 1,060 babies were given it (1,040 boys, #214 among boys’ names). The 47 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47 | #2,739 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 51 | #2,617 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 59 | #2,351 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 82 | #1,914 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 70 | #2,087 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 88 | #1,756 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 82 | #1,844 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 84 | #1,815 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 110 | #1,514 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 116 | #1,480 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (118)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 121 | #1,425 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 136 | #1,304 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 137 | #1,273 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 159 | #1,154 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 172 | #1,085 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 174 | #1,104 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 182 | #1,046 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 210 | #957 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 224 | #897 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 190 | #977 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 166 | #1,018 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 185 | #921 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 214 | #819 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 187 | #877 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 211 | #797 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 214 | #776 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 228 | #719 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 225 | #729 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 226 | #703 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 222 | #712 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 272 | #623 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 285 | #618 | 0.15 |
| 1993 | 324 | #568 | 0.17 |
| 1992 | 342 | #552 | 0.17 |
| 1991 | 314 | #569 | 0.16 |
| 1990 | 314 | #571 | 0.15 |
| 1989 | 332 | #525 | 0.17 |
| 1988 | 307 | #521 | 0.16 |
| 1987 | 299 | #519 | 0.16 |
| 1986 | 326 | #486 | 0.18 |
| 1985 | 292 | #511 | 0.16 |
| 1984 | 320 | #471 | 0.18 |
| 1983 | 317 | #470 | 0.18 |
| 1982 | 369 | #437 | 0.20 |
| 1981 | 401 | #414 | 0.22 |
| 1980 | 484 | #364 | 0.27 |
| 1979 | 521 | #346 | 0.30 |
| 1978 | 541 | #323 | 0.33 |
| 1977 | 531 | #337 | 0.32 |
| 1976 | 599 | #300 | 0.38 |
| 1975 | 659 | #291 | 0.42 |
| 1974 | 824 | #243 | 0.52 |
| 1973 | 900 | #234 | 0.58 |
| 1972 | 1,040 | #214 | 0.64 |
| 1971 | 524 | #350 | 0.30 |
| 1970 | 534 | #352 | 0.29 |
| 1969 | 443 | #372 | 0.25 |
| 1968 | 423 | #377 | 0.24 |
| 1967 | 375 | #390 | 0.22 |
| 1966 | 342 | #408 | 0.19 |
| 1965 | 336 | #424 | 0.18 |
| 1964 | 340 | #433 | 0.17 |
| 1963 | 293 | #458 | 0.14 |
| 1962 | 268 | #484 | 0.13 |
| 1961 | 272 | #483 | 0.13 |
| 1960 | 225 | #528 | 0.11 |
| 1959 | 252 | #493 | 0.12 |
| 1958 | 233 | #504 | 0.11 |
| 1957 | 225 | #513 | 0.10 |
| 1956 | 202 | #526 | 0.10 |
| 1955 | 206 | #512 | 0.10 |
| 1954 | 232 | #475 | 0.11 |
| 1953 | 201 | #494 | 0.10 |
| 1952 | 182 | #517 | 0.09 |
| 1951 | 204 | #474 | 0.11 |
| 1950 | 194 | #477 | 0.11 |
| 1949 | 193 | #476 | 0.11 |
| 1948 | 171 | #506 | 0.10 |
| 1947 | 145 | #562 | 0.08 |
| 1946 | 149 | #525 | 0.09 |
| 1945 | 101 | #604 | 0.08 |
| 1944 | 103 | #609 | 0.08 |
| 1943 | 94 | #664 | 0.07 |
| 1942 | 103 | #621 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 94 | #626 | 0.08 |
| 1940 | 64 | #776 | 0.06 |
| 1939 | 56 | #815 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 44 | #956 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 41 | #997 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,569 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,440 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 34 | #1,140 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 38 | #1,064 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 36 | #1,132 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 30 | #1,268 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 42 | #1,076 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 32 | #1,253 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 31 | #1,313 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 32 | #1,314 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,495 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,477 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 19 | #1,869 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 27 | #1,448 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 32 | #1,298 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 30 | #1,378 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 22 | #1,668 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 25 | #1,468 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 30 | #1,304 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,564 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,357 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,839 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,648 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,545 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 9 | #1,822 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,881 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,378 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 5 | #1,504 | 0.03 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,113 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lamont a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lamont has been given almost only to boys: 165 girls in 118 years of records.
Girls and boys named Lamont: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lamont, and how old are they?
20,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 24,189 Americans ever recorded as Lamont. The median Lamont alive today is 48 years old; half are between 33 and 56.
The 2020 Census counted 15,436 people named Lamont (66 women and girls, 15,370 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 20,890 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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 | 255 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,850 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 8,180 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,790 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,110 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,170 |
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 Lamont born?
The states with the most babies named Lamont are New York, Illinois and Pennsylvania, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 2,731 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 2,152 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,940 | #1,351 | 1.6× |
| California | 1,714 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 1,303 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Maryland | 1,233 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Ohio | 1,200 | #1,392 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 1,172 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 1,002 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| North Carolina | 760 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Lamont is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lamont is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1910 it was given 3.8 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 Lamont with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 24,389 babies since 1880, Lamont is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 47 of their 47 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Lamont
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 Lamont and names like it
- Compare Lamont and LamountBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLamont peaked in 1972.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lamont since 1910.
- The top names of 1972The year the most babies were named Lamont.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lamont alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.