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Lonzo

#4,205 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Lonzo has been given to 3,961 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #4,205 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1919, with 85 recorded.

Babies named Lonzo, 2025

1 in 133,000

Lonzo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lonzo: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lonzo means

Lonzo is a given name.

The naming story behind Lonzo

Wikidata records Lonzo as a given name. The entity identifier is Q70702857, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,961 boys were recorded with the name Lonzo between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 85 in 1919; its best national rank was #452 in 1890.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,636 in 2020 to #4,205 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,442 in 2015 to #4,205 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Lonzo?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 68,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,205
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lonzo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lonzo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lonzos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lonzo was born before 1939 — so the typical Lonzo is around 86 today.

Median birth year
1939
About 86 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
16.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,493
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 16.6% of all recorded uses (659).

Is Lonzo rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,150
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+431
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,237
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.78×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.4%
Peak was 1919 (85)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#452
1890

Spellings of Lonzo

Lonzo is not the most common spelling — Lorenzo is, with 36.3% against Lonzo's 1.7%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Lonzo is used

Across 1910–2025, Lonzo was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 6,250 boys, against 1 in 61,598 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

016 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 6,250
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 12,500
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 16,667
  4. 4Alabama1 in 50,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 50,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 50,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 50,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Lonzo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lonzo around the world

Where Lonzo ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2024–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • France
    2018–2024
    #6,749
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2021–2022
    #2,602
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Lonzo

People whose public names include Lonzo, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Lonzo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,205
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 431
Best rank ever
#452
1890
Peak year
1919
85 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,961
Count in 2025
25

Names similar to Lonzo

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

LonnyKenzoLongRenzoLondonLonieLondynAlfonzoLoneyLonzieLonellLonzaLonLonnieLarenzoLonnellAlanzoEnzoLonnAlonzoVincenzoLondellLonneyHanzo

Names with a curve like Lonzo

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lonzo, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ObieIvyRowlandAdolphusGarnettWebsterEnnisHowellLlewellynLambertThorntonRollie

Sibling names for Lonzo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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