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Lachlan

#606 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Land of the lochs, loch or fjord land, i.e. Scandinavia

Lachlan has been given to 6,398 babies in the U.S. since 1952. In 2025 it ranked #606 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 468 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.

Babies named Lachlan, 2025

1 in 7,080

Lachlan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Lachlan over time

In 2025, Lachlan went to 2% girls and 98% boys.

19522025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Lachlan: meaning, origin, and history

Land of the lochs, loch or fjord land, i.e. Scandinavia

Scottish Gaelic

What Lachlan means

Lachlan means “land of the lochs, loch or fjord land, i.e. Scandinavia”, associated with Lochlann.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Scottish Gaelic Lachlann, Lochlann (“land of the lochs, loch or fjord land, i.e. Scandinavia”), said to refer to an immigrant from Norway, a Norseman.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Lachlan (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Lachlan is used in English. Its origins include Scottish Gaelic.

Lachlan comes through Scottish Gaelic Lachlann.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Lachlan is pronounced /ˈlæklən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,108 boys were recorded with the name Lachlan between 1952 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 468 in 2025; its best national rank was #606 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #705 in 2020 to #606 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #767 in 2015 to #606 in 2025.

In the United States, 290 girls were recorded with the name Lachlan between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2020; its best national rank was #5,404 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,404 in 2020 to #10,532 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,130 in 2015 to #10,532 in 2025.

How common is Lachlan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 7,080
468 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 3,650
0.03% of boys
Rank, 2025
#606
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,911 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lachlan 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 1001%
School of 5007%

Put another way: gather 4,911 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lachlan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lachlans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lachlan was born before 2017 — so the typical Lachlan is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,108
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.2% of all recorded uses (2,697).

Is Lachlan 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
+89
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+99
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+161
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (468)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#606
2025

Spellings of Lachlan

Lachlan is the most-used spelling, taking 38.2% of the 15,986 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Lachlan is used

Across 2016–2025, Lachlan was most concentrated in Colorado — about 1 in 1,724 boys, against 1 in 4,569 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in 20,000).

558 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Colorado1 in 1,724
  2. 2Washington1 in 1,754
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 1,852
  4. 4Oregon1 in 1,961
  5. 5Utah1 in 2,174
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 2,564
  7. 7Idaho1 in 2,857
  8. 8Montana1 in 2,941

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.

Geographically, Lachlan is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 57% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Lachlan around the world

Where Lachlan 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
    1996–2025
    #283
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–2025
    #79
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1998–2025
    #344
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1997–2025
    #317
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #261
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2013
    #7
    in 2013
  • New South Wales
    1982–2025
    #34
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada, Consumer and Business Services (South Australia) and NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Lachlan

People whose public names include Lachlan, 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.

Lachlan in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Lachlan. Linked forms have their own page here.

Lochlan

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Lachlan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#606
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 99
Best rank ever
#606
2025
Peak year
2025
468 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,108
Count in 2025
468

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,532
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,128
Best rank ever
#5,404
2020
Peak year
2020
23 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
290
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Lachlan

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

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Names with a curve like Lachlan

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

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Sibling names for Lachlan

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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