Baby name

Lon

Boy

Classic name

1948 was its best year: 274 births, or 1 baby in 12,599. A lasting presence, with births recorded in 137 years out of 146. No births recorded in 2025: the name is no longer given, or too rarely to be published.

9,836births since 1880

1940sgeneration

No. 411rank at its peak, in 1948

Where babies named Lon are born

1948

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The darker the blue, the more common Lon is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.

Where it is most popular

Compared with the national average, Lon is most common in Minnesota (3 times), Iowa (2.6) and Wisconsin (2.4), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.

One letter apart

Leon 182,638
Jon 168,142
Don 167,632
Ron 36,362
Von 5,552
Len 4,514

Names from the same era

Lanny · Linwood · Fredric · Felton · Gale · Ivory

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