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Lochlainn

#10,273 in 2025Boys' name

Viking, Scandinavian

Lochlainn has been given to 52 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #10,273 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Lochlainn, 2025

1 in 474,000

Lochlainn over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lochlainn: meaning, origin, and history

Viking, Scandinavian

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lochlainn means

Lochlainn means “Viking, Scandinavian”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 52 boys were recorded with the name Lochlainn between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2019; its best national rank was #8,609 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,179 in 2020 to #10,273 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Lochlainn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,273
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lochlainn 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lochlainn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lochlainns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lochlainn was born before 2020 — so the typical Lochlainn is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
61.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
52
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 61.5% of all recorded uses (32).

Is Lochlainn 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−94
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
77.8%
Peak was 2019 (9)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,609
2019

Spellings of Lochlainn

Lochlainn is not the most common spelling — Lochlan is, with 98.9% against Lochlainn's 1.1%.

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.

Lochlainn around the world

Where Lochlainn 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
    1999–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2016–2016
    #707
    in 2016
  • Northern Ireland
    2008–2025
    #149
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1980–2025
    #272
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2001–2001
    #581
    in 2001

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

Lochlainn by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,273
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 94
Best rank ever
#8,609
2019
Peak year
2019
9 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
52
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Lochlainn

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

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Sibling names for Lochlainn

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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