Locklin
#7,475 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Locklin has been given to 56 babies in the U.S. since 2014. In 2025 it ranked #7,475 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% boys, 9% girls all-time.
Babies named Locklin, 2025
1 in 301,000
Locklin 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Locklin over time
In 2025, Locklin went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Locklin?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 301,000
- 11 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 155,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,475
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 208,901 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Locklin sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Locklin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Locklins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Locklin was born before 2018 — so the typical Locklin is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 54.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 51
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 54.9% of all recorded uses (28).
Is Locklin 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
- +4,324
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +5,788
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.20×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (11)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.7% average annual change
Spellings of Locklin
Locklin is not the most common spelling — Lochlan is, with 65.3% against Locklin's 0.69%.
Locklin around the world
Where Locklin 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 & Wales2022–2022#4,790in 2022
- South Australia2000–2013#754in 2013
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.
Locklin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Locklin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Locklin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.