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Lochlan

#644 in 2025Boys' name

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

Lochlan has been given to 4,970 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #644 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 433 recorded.

Babies named Lochlan, 2025

1 in 7,660

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lochlan: meaning, origin, and history

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

Scottish Gaelic

What Lochlan means

Lochlan belongs to the name family reached through Lochlan → Lachlan. Its meaning is “land of the lochs, loch or fjord land, i.e. Scandinavia”.

Origin, language, and formation

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lachlan.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Lochlan is pronounced /ˈlɒ.klən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,846 boys were recorded with the name Lochlan between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 433 in 2025; its best national rank was #644 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #729 in 2020 to #644 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #843 in 2015 to #644 in 2025.

In the United States, 124 girls were recorded with the name Lochlan between 2012 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2024; its best national rank was #8,738 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,699 in 2020 to #9,221 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,881 in 2015 to #9,221 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lochlan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 7,660
433 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 3,940
0.03% of boys
Rank, 2025
#644
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,308 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lochlan 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 5006%

Put another way: gather 5,308 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lochlan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lochlans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lochlan was born before 2018 — so the typical Lochlan is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
49.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,846
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 49.6% of all recorded uses (2,406).

Is Lochlan 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
+133
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+85
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+199
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.62×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (433)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#644
2025

Spellings of Lochlan

Lochlan is not the most common spelling — Lachlan is, with 53.0% against Lochlan's 42.1%.

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.

Where Lochlan is used

Across 2016–2025, Lochlan was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 1,852 boys, against 1 in 5,053 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in 50,000).

254 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 1,852
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 2,222
  3. 3Idaho1 in 2,381
  4. 4Washington1 in 2,381
  5. 5Colorado1 in 2,500
  6. 6New Hampshire1 in 2,564
  7. 7Michigan1 in 2,703
  8. 8Kansas1 in 2,857

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, Lochlan is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 51% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Lochlan around the world

Where Lochlan 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
    1997–2025
    #257
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1998–2025
    #72
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2010–2025
    #237
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2004–2025
    #207
    in 2025
  • France
    2004–2005
    #4,430
    in 2005
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #404
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1967–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Lochlan in other languages

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

Lachlan

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

Lochlan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#644
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 85
Best rank ever
#644
2025
Peak year
2025
433 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,846
Count in 2025
433

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,221
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,478
Best rank ever
#8,738
2024
Peak year
2024
12 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
124
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Lochlan

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

LocklanLachlanQuinlanJaylanKeelanRaylanDillanStellanDyllanDaylanBraylanDeklanCaelanKellanCallanTalanTylanDilanLockeArlanLochlannKaelanArsalanFroylan

Names with a curve like Lochlan

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

AxtonFinnleyDashHenrikAlistairKannonAxlCastielJaxxHarlemJaxxonYahya

Sibling names for Lochlan

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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