Meaning not yet researched.
Lamarr: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,049 in 1984.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,049 in 1984; #8,638 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lamarr in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,638 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1984, at #1,049.
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Lamarr: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,049 in 1984 · most boys in one year: 73 (1984).
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Lamarr, making it the 8,638th most common boys’ name of the year, up 3,135 places from #11,773 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 6 boys named Lamarr in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,049, reached in 1984. That year also had the most boys given the name: 73. For comparison, it was #4,638 in 2015 and #1,728 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lamarr in 105 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 5 babies. In all, 2,926 US babies have been given the name, 1.0% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 607 babies named Lamarr.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 135 US boys were named Lamarr; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 189,786 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lamar (35,251 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Lamarr in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 9 | #8,638 |
| 2024 | — | — | 6 | #11,773 |
| 2023 | — | — | 7 | #10,339 |
| 2022 | — | — | 9 | #8,702 |
| 2021 | — | — | 13 | #6,536 |
| 2020 | — | — | 14 | #6,160 |
| 2019 | — | — | 19 | #5,070 |
| 2018 | — | — | 24 | #4,306 |
| 2017 | — | — | 13 | #6,529 |
| 2016 | — | — | 21 | #4,708 |
| 2015 | — | — | 21 | #4,638 |
| 2014 | — | — | 20 | #4,794 |
| 2013 | — | — | 19 | #4,901 |
| 2012 | — | — | 30 | #3,592 |
| 2011 | — | — | 28 | #3,744 |
| 2010 | — | — | 38 | #3,054 |
| 2009 | — | — | 30 | #3,604 |
| 2008 | — | — | 26 | #3,997 |
| 2007 | — | — | 27 | #3,854 |
| 2006 | — | — | 21 | #4,443 |
| 2005 | — | — | 20 | #4,402 |
| 2004 | — | — | 25 | #3,708 |
| 2003 | — | — | 24 | #3,686 |
| 2002 | — | — | 29 | #3,150 |
| 2001 | — | — | 16 | #4,808 |
| 2000 | — | — | 24 | #3,484 |
| 1999 | — | — | 41 | #2,251 |
| 1998 | — | — | 28 | #2,896 |
| 1997 | — | — | 30 | #2,655 |
| 1996 | — | — | 34 | #2,360 |
| 1995 | — | — | 34 | #2,327 |
| 1994 | — | — | 32 | #2,429 |
| 1993 | — | — | 36 | #2,188 |
| 1992 | — | — | 52 | #1,668 |
| 1991 | — | — | 50 | #1,664 |
| 1990 | — | — | 53 | #1,578 |
| 1989 | — | — | 67 | #1,344 |
| 1988 | — | — | 64 | #1,289 |
| 1987 | — | — | 52 | #1,416 |
| 1986 | — | — | 54 | #1,342 |
| 1985 | — | — | 52 | #1,340 |
| 1984 | — | — | 73 | #1,049 |
| 1983 | — | — | 69 | #1,071 |
| 1982 | — | — | 66 | #1,129 |
| 1981 | — | — | 52 | #1,285 |
| 1980 | — | — | 58 | #1,209 |
| 1979 | — | — | 69 | #1,074 |
| 1978 | — | — | 60 | #1,140 |
| 1977 | — | — | 64 | #1,087 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,074 | 44 | #1,339 |
| 1975 | — | — | 48 | #1,236 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,553 | 37 | #1,430 |
| 1973 | — | — | 55 | #1,100 |
| 1972 | — | — | 46 | #1,223 |
| 1971 | — | — | 47 | #1,207 |
| 1970 | — | — | 52 | #1,149 |
| 1969 | — | — | 40 | #1,259 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,629 | 38 | #1,240 |
| 1967 | — | — | 26 | #1,527 |
| 1966 | — | — | 31 | #1,389 |
| 1965 | — | — | 33 | #1,349 |
| 1964 | — | — | 19 | #1,875 |
| 1963 | — | — | 19 | #1,868 |
| 1962 | — | — | 24 | #1,651 |
| 1961 | — | — | 26 | #1,587 |
| 1960 | — | — | 35 | #1,351 |
| 1959 | — | — | 20 | #1,838 |
| 1958 | — | — | 17 | #1,990 |
| 1957 | — | — | 25 | #1,610 |
| 1956 | — | — | 17 | #1,986 |
| 1955 | — | — | 18 | #1,883 |
| 1954 | — | — | 20 | #1,735 |
| 1953 | — | — | 20 | #1,747 |
| 1952 | — | — | 28 | #1,446 |
| 1951 | — | — | 26 | #1,475 |
| 1950 | — | — | 19 | #1,728 |
| 1949 | — | — | 20 | #1,689 |
| 1948 | — | — | 20 | #1,685 |
| 1947 | — | — | 19 | #1,761 |
| 1946 | — | — | 13 | #2,094 |
| 1945 | — | — | 19 | #1,558 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,754 |
| 1943 | — | — | 11 | #2,343 |
| 1942 | — | — | 14 | #2,000 |
| 1941 | — | — | 23 | #1,430 |
| 1940 | — | — | 14 | #1,944 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,593 | 18 | #1,609 |
| 1938 | — | — | 11 | #2,265 |
| 1937 | — | — | 9 | #2,591 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,367 |
| 1935 | — | — | 8 | #2,832 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,498 |
| 1933 | — | — | 16 | #1,797 |
| 1932 | — | — | 7 | #3,236 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,595 |
| 1930 | — | — | 9 | #2,897 |
| 1929 | — | — | 7 | #3,407 |
| 1928 | — | — | 7 | #3,548 |
| 1927 | — | — | 7 | #3,643 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,582 | 15 | #2,138 |
| 1925 | — | — | 9 | #3,038 |
| 1924 | — | — | 18 | #1,937 |
| 1923 | — | — | 11 | #2,703 |
| 1919 | — | — | 7 | #3,586 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,506 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).