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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Lon

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

9,836

peak year 1948

More common than

97%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1948
274 births
Best rank
#193
in 1880
First recorded
1880
#193 that year
Last recorded
2022
no later published record
Average birth year
1948
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
137 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1948274#411Peak
  2. 1947271#415
  3. 1953260#444
  4. 1955252#467
  5. 1952242#454

Rank over time

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

Best rank #193 in 1880 · peak births 274 in 1948

Boys and girls

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

● 100% boys■ 0% girls

9,836 boys · 20 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 Lon has ranked, decade by decade

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