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Lancelot

#7,030 in 2025Boys' name

Land

Lancelot has been given to 638 babies in the U.S. since 1908. In 2025 it ranked #7,030 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1984, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Lancelot, 2025

1 in 276,000

Lancelot over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lancelot: meaning, origin, and history

Land

Germanic languages, English and Middle French

What Lancelot means

Lancelot means “land”, associated with landą.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Middle English Launcelot, from Old French Lancelot, from Frankish *Lanzo, hypocoristic form of names beginning in *Land-, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), and diminutive Old French endings -el and -ot.

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

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Origin, language, and formation

Lancelot is used in English, Cebuano, French and Tagalog. Its origins include Germanic languages, English and Middle French.

Lancelot comes through Middle English Launcelot, Old French Lancelot, frk *Lanzo and Proto-Germanic *landą.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Landbeorht and Lambert.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Lancelot is pronounced /ˈlæn.sə.lɒt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 638 boys were recorded with the name Lancelot between 1908 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1984; its best national rank was #1,505 in 1908.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,252 in 2020 to #7,030 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,341 in 2015 to #7,030 in 2025.

How common is Lancelot?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,030
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lancelot 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lancelot. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lancelots were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lancelot was born before 1993 — so the typical Lancelot is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
18.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
579
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 18.0% of all recorded uses (115).

Is Lancelot 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
+2,470
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+6,222
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+311
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.09×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 1984 (18)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,505
1908

Where Lancelot is used

Across 1910–2025, Lancelot was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,337,241 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

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. Lancelot has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lancelot around the world

Where Lancelot 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
    2001–2020
    #4,608
    in 2020
  • France
    1968–2025
    #1,431
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2022
    #2,602
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1945–2005
    #643
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lancelot by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,030
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6,222
Best rank ever
#1,505
1908
Peak year
1984
18 that year
First recorded
1908
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
638
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Lancelot

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

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Sibling names for Lancelot

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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