Lonzo
Lonzo was given to 25 boys in 2025, #4,205 among boys’ names; 3,961 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,500 Americans named Lonzo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (38% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 35 and 72.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lonzo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lonzo?
#4,205 among boys’ names, 2025
Lonzo rose from #8,442 in 2015 to #4,205 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.7 to 14.6 per million.
85 babies in 1919, the peak
Lonzo peaked in 1919, when 85 boys were given it, #676 among boys’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #4,205 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,355 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,748 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 33 | #3,505 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,575 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,636 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 22 | #4,578 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 26 | #4,060 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,941 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,423 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (141)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #8,442 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,596 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,692 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,528 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,564 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,735 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,907 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,242 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,727 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,673 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,412 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,013 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,174 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,432 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,623 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,828 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,688 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,302 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,293 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 17 | #3,682 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,767 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,705 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 10 | #5,030 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 22 | #2,651 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,128 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,954 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 17 | #2,898 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,591 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 16 | #2,864 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 19 | #2,568 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 15 | #2,976 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 23 | #2,256 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,970 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 19 | #2,439 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 22 | #2,178 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 22 | #2,147 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 28 | #1,769 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 26 | #1,816 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,459 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 24 | #1,855 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 23 | #1,893 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 30 | #1,567 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 19 | #1,954 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,259 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 19 | #1,838 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 30 | #1,413 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 24 | #1,612 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 28 | #1,500 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 29 | #1,472 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 35 | #1,326 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 30 | #1,482 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 32 | #1,415 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 38 | #1,272 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 45 | #1,154 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 41 | #1,229 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 37 | #1,272 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 47 | #1,095 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 40 | #1,192 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 53 | #994 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 49 | #1,038 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 40 | #1,145 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 57 | #911 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 47 | #1,017 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 56 | #927 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 50 | #1,022 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 31 | #1,272 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,194 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 53 | #874 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 51 | #938 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 42 | #1,046 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 40 | #1,030 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 48 | #925 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 52 | #852 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 28 | #1,267 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 53 | #839 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 41 | #986 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 56 | #841 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 45 | #951 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 47 | #917 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 40 | #1,071 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 44 | #1,008 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 49 | #970 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 50 | #959 | 0.05 |
| 1928 | 68 | #793 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 76 | #751 | 0.07 |
| 1926 | 61 | #848 | 0.05 |
| 1925 | 53 | #928 | 0.05 |
| 1924 | 85 | #720 | 0.08 |
| 1923 | 62 | #865 | 0.06 |
| 1922 | 62 | #879 | 0.06 |
| 1921 | 71 | #809 | 0.06 |
| 1920 | 71 | #797 | 0.07 |
| 1919 | 85 | #676 | 0.09 |
| 1918 | 68 | #795 | 0.07 |
| 1917 | 67 | #770 | 0.07 |
| 1916 | 63 | #776 | 0.07 |
| 1915 | 60 | #781 | 0.07 |
| 1914 | 38 | #893 | 0.06 |
| 1913 | 34 | #825 | 0.07 |
| 1912 | 29 | #826 | 0.07 |
| 1911 | 13 | #960 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 25 | #576 | 0.13 |
| 1909 | 22 | #567 | 0.13 |
| 1908 | 23 | #533 | 0.15 |
| 1907 | 19 | #578 | 0.13 |
| 1906 | 21 | #497 | 0.16 |
| 1905 | 20 | #517 | 0.15 |
| 1904 | 15 | #604 | 0.12 |
| 1903 | 19 | #497 | 0.16 |
| 1902 | 15 | #570 | 0.12 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,145 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 22 | #502 | 0.15 |
| 1898 | 15 | #559 | 0.12 |
| 1897 | 10 | #706 | 0.09 |
| 1896 | 14 | #575 | 0.12 |
| 1895 | 16 | #518 | 0.14 |
| 1894 | 8 | #829 | 0.07 |
| 1893 | 7 | #884 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 15 | #534 | 0.12 |
| 1891 | 12 | #544 | 0.12 |
| 1890 | 17 | #452 | 0.15 |
| 1889 | 11 | #607 | 0.10 |
| 1888 | 18 | #459 | 0.15 |
| 1887 | 14 | #473 | 0.14 |
| 1886 | 13 | #529 | 0.12 |
| 1885 | 12 | #566 | 0.11 |
| 1884 | 14 | #515 | 0.12 |
| 1883 | 15 | #472 | 0.14 |
| 1882 | 10 | #626 | 0.09 |
| 1881 | 11 | #548 | 0.11 |
| 1880 | 10 | #621 | 0.09 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lonzo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lonzo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 141 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lonzo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lonzo, and how old are they?
1,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 38% of the 3,961 Americans ever recorded as Lonzo. The median Lonzo alive today is 57 years old; half are between 35 and 72.
The 2020 Census counted 1,116 people named Lonzo (0 women and girls, 1,116 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,605 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% 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 | 155 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 508 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 307 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 201 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 117 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 211 |
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 Lonzo born?
The states with the most babies named Lonzo are Mississippi, Texas and Kentucky, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi and Kentucky are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 358 | not ranked | 5.8× |
| Texas | 213 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Kentucky | 183 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Arkansas | 159 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Tennessee | 87 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Alabama | 59 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 55 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Oklahoma | 47 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 46 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| South Carolina | 32 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Lonzo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lonzo is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 5.8 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 Lonzo 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,178 babies since 1880, Lonzo is the most given (76% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 25 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 Lonzo
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 Lonzo and names like it
- Compare Lonzo and LonzieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sLonzo peaked in 1919.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lonzo since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Lonzo.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lonzo alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.