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London
Pronounced /ˈlʌn.dən/
Rank in 2024
#1,208
Born in 2024
167
Peak year
2009 · #519
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:872 in 2024 (#355)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 167 boys were named London, about 1 in every 10,271.
- It peaked in 2009 with 520 babies, ranked #519.
- It first shows up in the records in 1886.
- 10,178 boys have been named London since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named London per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.2Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 144 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 88 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 156 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 348 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,110 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Z: 4,773 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,544 babies, 0.16 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English Londoun, from Old English Lunden, from Proto-Celtic via Latin Londinium – see for details. Doublet of Londinium.
- (rare) A unisex given name transferred from the place name.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈlʌn.dən/
From Wiktionary’s entry for London, CC BY-SA 4.0.