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Lochlan

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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
Babies named Lochlan, by year of birthboys
012525037550018801900192019401960198020002020

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

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Lochlan
1990s20
2000s407
2010s2,406
2020s1,580

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.

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.