London

#431 for girls in 2025, 719 births · #1,333 for boys in 2025, 144 births
Given to girls 81.2% of the time

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Peak · girls
2013 · 3,462 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
4 yrs
of 146 years
Total births · girls
44,455
since 1963

London over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201963peak #85, 2013peak #504, 2010girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#431719#1,333144
2024#355876#1,205168
2023#312989#1,053206
2022#2971,074#1,002222
2021#2171,360#1,031212
2020#1931,497#861263
2019#1671,731#826273
2018#1801,648#814276
2017#1511,973#818275
2016#1312,357#704351
2015#1052,922#606448
2014#933,290#612436
2013#853,462#606417
2012#943,202#541485
2011#943,168#562451
2010#1092,872#504511
2009#1222,632#519520
2008#1562,160#550478
2007#2841,196#658364
2006#351944#637366
2005#536538#683304
2004#666411#867202
2003#784314#884191
2002#836278#875187
2001#846270#867185
2000#828271#895174
1999#919230#1,095122
1998#1,024194#1,133110
1997#1,022188#1,040123
1996#1,020183#1,037118
1995#1,144153#1,18296
1994#977189#1,089106
1993#1,284132#1,071108
1992#1,231141#1,11996
1991#1,306127#1,008114
1990#1,397113#1,08696
1989#1,61586#1,07495
1988#1,76971#1,18972
1987#1,77666#1,50647
1986#2,05252#1,69437
1985#2,86032#2,01928
1984#3,32925#1,72333
1983#3,06527#1,95527
1982#4,71615#2,51819
1981#3,53223#2,68017
1980#4,74315#2,44420
1979#5,09213#3,01814
1978#4,07917#3,07013
1977#3,26723#2,13122
1976#3,28721#2,82614
1975#5,9849#2,28819
1974#4,22714#2,67414
1973#3,78716#2,03620
1972#3,89415#1,72126
1971#4,31113#1,40037
1970#3,20820#1,84723
1969#2,91721#1,41432
1968#3,05718#1,45529
1967#3,84512#1,65222
1966#3,95911#1,45028
1965#6,5395#2,08415
1964#6,7675#2,11415
1963#5,8916#2,8589
1962—#2,27913
1961—#2,70610
1960—#3,3377
1959—#3,0378
1958—#3,2757
1957—#3,5526
1956—#3,5356
1955—#3,2017
1954—#3,4526
1953—#2,39111
1952—#2,37611
1951——
1950—#2,7708
1949—#2,45310
1948—#3,0107
1947—#2,8628
1946—#2,9197
1945—#2,5748
1944—#2,8627
1943—#2,9647
1942——
1941—#2,20711
1940——
1939—#2,8297
1938—#3,5345
1937——
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1935—#3,2526
1934—#3,6795
1933—#2,7388
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1930—#2,7819
1929—#2,9808
1928—#3,3577
1927—#2,40812
1926—#3,3857
1925—#2,43512
1924—#3,8676
1923—#2,61411
1922—#3,5327
1921—#3,8696
1920—#3,2088
1919—#1,97316
1918—#2,26013
1917—#1,98615
1916—#3,5166
1915—#2,45810
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1913—#2,8215
1912—#2,5445
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1900—#1,3105
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First appearance
1963

The first year at least five girls were named London! It came in at #5,891, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1963–1965, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.

Where London is popular in 1963

No state had 5 or more girls named London in 1963, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

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Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 76 spots since 2024 (#355 → #431)
  • 238 spots since 2020 (#193 → #431)
  • 326 spots since 2015 (#105 → #431)
  • Biggest jump: 307 spots in 1994 (#1,284 → #977)
  • Biggest drop: 167 spots in 1995 (#977 → #1,144)
Rise & fade · girls
50 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1963
  • Peaked 2013 at #85 (3,462 births)
  • Births halved by 2018, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 100 for 4 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: 4 yrs · run 2011–2014
  • Top 1,000: 28 yrs · run 1999–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 507
  • Highest: 1 in 507 girls born in 2013 were named London (0.20%)
  • Latest: 1 in 2,235 girls born in 2025 (0.04%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 59.9% of all girls named London (26,625) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1990
  • Mostly boys until 1989, mostly girls since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s78#2,917 (1969)#4,711
1970s161#3,208 (1970)#4,114
1980s412#1,615 (1989)#2,946
1990s1,650#919 (1999)#1,132
2000s9,014#122 (2009)#541
2010s26,625#85 (2013)#121
2020s6,515#193 (2020)#301

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

London in 1963

girls
#5,891
6 births · 1 in 321,251 girls
boys
#2,858
9 births · 1 in 225,675 boys

Top girls' names in 1963

  1. #1Lisa56,047
  2. #2Mary41,546
  3. #3Susan33,991
  4. #4Karen32,492
  5. #5Linda27,727
  6. #6Donna25,405
  7. #7Patricia25,374
  8. #8Lori23,899
  9. #9Sandra21,621
  10. #10Cynthia21,589
  11. #5,891London6

Top boys' names in 1963

  1. #1Michael83,771
  2. #2John78,636
  3. #3David78,444
  4. #4James71,294
  5. #5Robert70,007
  6. #6Mark49,342
  7. #7William44,453
  8. #8Richard40,772
  9. #9Thomas35,490
  10. #10Jeffrey31,701
  11. #2,858London9
More about 1963

girls

1,927,507 girls got a published name in 1963; 1 in 321,251 of them was named London, which outranked 23.1% of the 7,661 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside London
  1. #5,296Xavier7
  2. #5,296Yamile7
  3. #5,296Zenna7
  4. #5,891London6
  5. #5,891Acquanetta6
  6. #5,891Adline6
  7. #5,891Adona6
  8. #6,592Abagail5
  9. #6,592Abigale5
  10. #6,592Adah5

Tied with 700 names at #5,891; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1962
Risers
  1. ↑ 631Zena#1,323 → #692
  2. ↑ 623Zina#992 → #369
  3. ↑ 540Trisha#1,020 → #480
  4. ↑ 457Shirl#1,304 → #847
  5. ↑ 396Glynis#992 → #596
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,195Marnita#727 → #1,922
  2. ↓ 255Velvet#623 → #878
  3. ↓ 235Delphine#904 → #1,139
  4. ↓ 224Rosita#934 → #1,158
  5. ↓ 197Lindy#885 → #1,082

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

2,031,078 boys got a published name in 1963; 1 in 225,675 of them was named London, which outranked 38.2% of the 4,621 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside London
  1. #2,673Woodie10
  2. #2,673Wyndell10
  3. #2,673Yves10
  4. #2,858London9
  5. #2,858Adelbert9
  6. #2,858Adonis9
  7. #2,858Adriano9
  8. #3,044Adolpho8
  9. #3,044Alicia8
  10. #3,044Alpha8

Tied with 185 names at #2,858; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1962
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,551Tal#2,364 → #813
  2. ↑ 1,141Jaimie#1,962 → #821
  3. ↑ 540Stoney#1,038 → #498
  4. ↑ 364Pamela#1,311 → #947
  5. ↑ 331Giovanni#1,242 → #911
Fallers
  1. ↓ 324Olin#871 → #1,195
  2. ↓ 295Enoch#984 → #1,279
  3. ↓ 285Rand#953 → #1,238
  4. ↓ 283Vernell#996 → #1,279
  5. ↓ 269Bentley#926 → #1,195

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1963 →