Lochlan
Lochlan is ranked 775th among boys in 2024 (323 births). Its best rank was 683rd, in 2018.
- Rank in 2024
- #775up 49 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3230.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 2018359 births
- Best rank
- #683in 2018
- Since 1998
- 4,526people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,413 boys have been named Lochlan in the United States since 1998, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 359 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago (rank 912 → 775).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2018, and the 2010s alone account for 55%. It has spent 12 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 113 girls have also been given it, 2.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2018, its biggest year
Lochlan was the 683rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2018 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Oliver. See all of 2018.
Names that rose and fell with Lochlan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Massiahpeak 2021
- Masiahpeak 2022
- Advikpeak 2017
- Axtonpeak 2021
- Dashpeak 2017
- Odinpeak 2022
- Daxtonpeak 2019
- Kysonpeak 2023
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.