Lamonta
Lamonta was last recorded in 2013, when 5 babies were given it; 226 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lamonta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lamonta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,248, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1994, the peak
Lamonta peaked in 1994, when 15 boys were given it, #4,198 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | #13,248 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,505 | 5.5 |
| 2007 | 5 | #13,555 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 9 | #8,041 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,522 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,526 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,393 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,246 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,430 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,202 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 7 | #8,080 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,138 | 6.4 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,621 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,418 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 15 | #4,198 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 9 | #6,022 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,920 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,828 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,857 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,658 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,492 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,777 | 4.8 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,903 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,766 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,602 | 2.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,707 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,155 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,647 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,690 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lamonta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lamonta has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lamonta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lamonta, and how old are they?
An estimated 217 Americans named Lamonta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 24 and 38. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 212 people named Lamonta (17 women and girls, 195 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 220 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,952 babies since 1880, Lamonta is the third most given (5.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 25 babies recorded by SSA was a Lamonta (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Lamonta
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 Lamonta and names like it
- Compare Lamonta and LamonteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sLamonta peaked in 1994.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Lamonta.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lamonta alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.