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Lochlann

#3,354 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Lochlainn

Lochlann has been given to 443 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #3,354 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 40 recorded.

Babies named Lochlann, 2025

1 in 94,700

Lochlann over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lochlann: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Lochlainn

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lochlann means

Lochlann is a variant of Lochlainn.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Lochlann → Lochlainn. The family’s meaning is “Viking, Scandinavian”, recorded in the naming reference for Lochlainn.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lochlainn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 443 boys were recorded with the name Lochlann between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 40 in 2019; its best national rank was #2,960 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,960 in 2020 to #3,354 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,823 in 2015 to #3,354 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 Lochlann?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 94,700
35 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 48,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,354
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
65,655 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lochlann 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 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lochlann. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lochlanns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lochlann was born before 2019 — so the typical Lochlann is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
443
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Choose a decade

2010s — 47.9% of all recorded uses (212).

Is Lochlann 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
+139
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−394
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,469
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.75×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.5%
Peak was 2019 (40)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,960
2020

Spellings of Lochlann

Lochlann is not the most common spelling — Lachlan is, with 53.6% against Lochlann's 3.9%.

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 Lochlann is used

Across 1910–2025, Lochlann was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 870,250 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in —
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in —
  3. 3Virginia1 in —
  4. 4Washington1 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. Lochlann has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lochlann around the world

Where Lochlann 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
    1998–2025
    #1,124
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1998–2025
    #441
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2006–2025
    #237
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1973–2025
    #188
    in 2025
  • France
    2004–2011
    #4,915
    in 2011
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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.

Lochlann by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,354
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 394
Best rank ever
#2,960
2020
Peak year
2019
40 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
443
Count in 2025
35

Names similar to Lochlann

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

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Sibling names for Lochlann

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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