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London

girls’ name · 81%boys’ name · 19%FallingCompare

London is ranked 355th among girls in 2024 (872 births). Its best rank was 85th, in 2013.

Rank in 2024
#355down 42 from 2023
Births in 2024
8720.05% of girls
Peak year
20133,462 births
Best rank
#85in 2013
Since 1963
53,894people given the name
Babies named London, by year of birthgirlsboys
01.3k2.5k3.8k5k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

43,716 girls have been named London in the United States since 1963, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2013, with 3,462 births — 0.20% of all girls recorded that year.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 93 → 355).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2013, and the 2010s alone account for 61%. It has spent 27 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 4 of them in the top 100.

London is used for both sexes: 19% of its bearers are boys (10,178), most of them born around 2009.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named London
1960s78
1970s161
1980s412
1990s1,650
2000s9,013
2010s26,619
2020s5,783

In 2013, its biggest year

London was the 85th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2013 were Sophia, Emma, Olivia, Isabella and Ava. See all of 2013.

Names that rose and fell with London

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.