Lamar
Lamar is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 117 births. Its best rank was 314th, in 1980.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1170.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1989737 births
- Best rank
- #314in 1980
- Since 1882
- 35,111people given the name
The story in the numbers
33,846 boys have been named Lamar in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1989, with 737 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1978, and the 1980s alone account for 18%. It has spent 128 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,265 girls have also been given it, 3.6% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Lamar | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 33 | |
| 1890s | 94 | |
| 1900s | 163 | |
| 1910s | 1,071 | |
| 1920s | 2,125 | |
| 1930s | 2,193 | |
| 1940s | 2,361 | |
| 1950s | 2,764 | |
| 1960s | 2,606 | |
| 1970s | 4,137 | |
| 1980s | 6,064 | |
| 1990s | 3,944 | |
| 2000s | 2,900 | |
| 2010s | 2,665 | |
| 2020s | 726 |
In 1989, its biggest year
Lamar was the 325th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1989 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and David. See all of 1989.
Names that rose and fell with Lamar
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ramonpeak 1991
- Federicopeak 1976
- Leopoldopeak 1980
- Lemarpeak 1979
- Eligiopeak 1985
- Rosendopeak 1993
- Gregoriopeak 1993
- Benitopeak 2023
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.