Locklen
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Locklen has been given to 21 babies in the U.S. since 2018. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2022, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Locklen, 2022
1 in 339,000
Locklen over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Locklen?
Locklen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 339,000
- 10 of 3,385,755 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 175,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 234,684 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Locklen sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 234,684 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Locklen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Locklens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Locklen was born before 2020 — so the typical Locklen is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 71.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 21
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 71.4% of all recorded uses (15).
Is Locklen 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
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2022 (10)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Locklen
Locklen is not the most common spelling — Lochlan is, with 72.8% against Locklen's 0.32%.
Locklen around the world
Where Locklen 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 & Wales2016–2016#4,810in 2016
- South Australia2009–2009#708in 2009
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Locklen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Locklen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Locklen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.