Lochlan

#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births · #644 for boys in 2025, 433 births
Given to boys 97.5% of the time

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Peak · boys
2025 · 433 births
Debut · boys
8 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
4,846
since 1998

Lochlan over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Lochlan has never cracked the top 600 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202015boysat peak
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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#8,86011#644433
2024#8,44312#777323
2023#10,3129#823297
2022#9,68010#804312
2021#8,97811#791311
2020#11,0908#728337
2019#10,4739#705354
2018#10,5459#682359
2017#10,6899#736323
2016#11,7818#770314
2015#13,0067#841267
2014#11,9318#909236
2013#11,9698#937213
2012#16,8695#1,195150
2011#1,565100
2010#1,69790
2009#1,79783
2008#2,00170
2007#2,13963
2006#2,54247
2005#2,90236
2004#3,21730
2003#3,73223
2002#3,45025
2001#4,12119
2000#5,92011
1999#5,31712
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First appearance
1998

The first year at least five boys were named Lochlan! It came in at #6,843, and was given to 8 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1998–2000, when fewer than 13 boys a year got the name.

See more about Lochlan
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 133 spots since 2024 (#777#644)
  • 84 spots since 2020 (#728#644)
  • 197 spots since 2015 (#841#644)
  • Biggest jump: 258 spots in 2013 (#1,195#937)
  • Biggest drop: 63 spots in 2021 (#728#791)
Rise & fade · boys
27 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1998
  • Peaked 2025 at #644 (433 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 13 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 2013–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 3,945
  • Highest: 1 in 3,945 boys born in 2025 were named Lochlan (0.03%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 49.6% of all boys named Lochlan (2,406) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s20#5,317 (1999)#6,080
2000s407#1,797 (2009)#3,182
2010s2,406#682 (2018)#1,004
2020s2,013#644 (2025)#761

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Lochlan in 2015

girls
#13,006
7 births · 1 in 255,014 girls
boys
#841
267 births · 1 in 7,179 boys

Top girls' names in 2015

  1. #1Emma20,487
  2. #2Olivia19,729
  3. #3Sophia17,454
  4. #4Ava16,416
  5. #5Isabella15,667
  6. #6Mia14,943
  7. #7Abigail12,422
  8. #8Emily11,808
  9. #9Charlotte11,415
  10. #10Harper10,311
  11. #13,006Lochlan7

Top boys' names in 2015

  1. #1Noah19,680
  2. #2Liam18,410
  3. #3Mason16,675
  4. #4Jacob16,005
  5. #5William15,950
  6. #6Ethan15,103
  7. #7James14,865
  8. #8Alexander14,584
  9. #9Michael14,504
  10. #10Benjamin13,732
  11. #841Lochlan267
More about 2015

girls

1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 255,014 of them was named Lochlan, which outranked 32.0% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Lochlan
  1. #11,835Zyanne8
  2. #11,835Zykira8
  3. #11,835Zyonnah8
  4. #13,006Lochlan7
  5. #13,006Aabha7
  6. #13,006Aadvika7
  7. #13,006Aaila7
  8. #14,482Aafia6
  9. #14,482Aailyah6
  10. #14,482Aala6

Tied with 1,475 names at #13,006; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2014
Risers
  1. 1,984Alaia#2,648#664
  2. 1,835Meilani#2,781#946
  3. 1,733Aitana#2,648#915
  4. 1,387Aislinn#2,351#964
  5. 1,072Taya#2,049#977
Fallers
  1. 1,075Isis#703#1,778
  2. 502Annabell#923#1,425
  3. 500Anabel#911#1,411
  4. 344Cindy#711#1,055
  5. 334Anabella#529#863

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 7,179 of them was named Lochlan, which outranked 94.0% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Lochlan
  1. #838Maison268
  2. #838Micheal268
  3. #838Rogelio268
  4. #841Lochlan267
  5. #841Cristiano267
  6. #841Henrik267
  7. #844Draven266
  8. #844Otis266
  9. #844Rudy266

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2014
Risers
  1. 1,348Riaan#2,277#929
  2. 397Huxley#1,355#958
  3. 355Wilder#1,313#958
  4. 284Jaziel#1,218#934
  5. 268Canaan#1,074#806
Fallers
  1. 676Arnav#891#1,567
  2. 262Jayse#906#1,168
  3. 239Neymar#551#790
  4. 228Rylee#877#1,105
  5. 204Johnathon#915#1,119

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2015