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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Lamar

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#1,517

down −21 places

2025 births

115

down −5 births

All-time births

33,967

0% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1989
737 births
Best rank
#314
in 1980
First recorded
1882
#1,021 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1973
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
140 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1989737#325Peak
  2. 1990689#350
  3. 1988668#323
  4. 1986617#324
  5. 1987613#335

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #314 in 1980 · peak births 737 in 1989

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 96% boys■ 4% girls

33,967 boys · 1,284 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Lamar has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.