Gender-neutral · #1514 in 2025

Lamar

Lamar: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#1514
Born 2025
115
Peak year
1989

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 boys born

Lamar per 100,000 boys born, by year. Peak: 1989. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Lamar has been falling: its share of boys born has shrunk over the last 10 years. It now stands at 18% of its 1989 peak.

Boy or girl?

Over the last 10 years, 14% of children named Lamar were recorded as girls and 86% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.

Related names

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Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.