girls:
30 births since 1926
#5686 (0th percentile)
boys:
2.9k births since 1918
#2343 (49th percentile)
overall:
2.9k births since 1918
#5022 (35th percentile)
The name Lamarr is the #5,022 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,911 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 35.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 35.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,343 (48.9% percentile) for all time with 2,881 births since 1918. For girls, it ranks #5,686 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 30 births since 1926.
Lamarr first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (1918 for boys and 1926 for girls). Birth data for Lamarr is available in 103 out of the 106 years between 1918 and 2023 (103 years for boys and 5 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Lamarr has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Lamarr reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 9.9% percentile (ranked #620) with 39 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 39 births per million (ranked 9.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Lamarr ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 9.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Lamarr reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #743) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1976.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lamarr".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Lamarr. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.3% confident that Lamarr is pronounced as luh-MAHR, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is lah-MAHR, at 15.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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