Lon
Lon is a given name, nickname, stage name and surname. It may refer to:
- English
Meaning & Origin of Lon
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Lon is a given name, nickname, stage name and surname. It may refer to:
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Lon
Lon first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1880, with 64 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1948: 274 births, good for #411 nationwide. About 24% of every Lon on record arrived during the 1950s, its defining decade. Lon last appeared in the published SSA data in 2022, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 10K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1880s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Lon
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Names that sound like Lon
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About the name Lon
Lon is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1880 and has accumulated 10K births in the dataset. Lon's peak popularity came in 1948 when it ranked #411. Use the chart and map above to compare Lon's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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