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Loki

#1,858 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Liar, deceiver, through Loki

Loki has been given to 2,101 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #1,858 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 156 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.

Babies named Loki, 2025

1 in 39,000

Loki over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Loki over time

In 2025, Loki went to 7% girls and 93% boys.

19962025

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.

Loki: meaning, origin, and history

Liar, deceiver, through Loki

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Loki means

Loki belongs to the name family reached through Loki → Loki. Its meaning is “liar, deceiver”.

Origin, language, and formation

Loki is used in Icelandic.

Loki comes through Old Norse Loki.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Loki.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Icelandic, Loki is pronounced [ˈlɔːcɪ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,006 boys were recorded with the name Loki between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 156 in 2021; its best national rank was #1,235 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,331 in 2020 to #1,858 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,458 in 2015 to #1,858 in 2025.

In the United States, 95 girls were recorded with the name Loki between 2007 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2021; its best national rank was #8,759 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #16,538 in 2020 to #14,221 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,629 in 2015 to #14,221 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 Loki?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 39,000
85 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 20,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,858
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
27,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Loki 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 27,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Loki. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lokis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Loki was born before 2017 — so the typical Loki is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,006
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 48.8% of all recorded uses (978).

Is Loki 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
−97
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−527
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−400
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.73×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
54.5%
Peak was 2021 (156)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,235
2021

Spellings of Loki

Loki is not the most common spelling — Louis is, with 37.1% against Loki's 0.18%.

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 Loki is used

Across 2016–2025, Loki was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 7,692 boys, against 1 in 19,866 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 in 7,692
  2. 2Missouri1 in 9,091
  3. 3Ohio1 in 9,091
  4. 4Indiana1 in 11,111
  5. 5Michigan1 in 11,111
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 12,500
  7. 7Minnesota1 in 14,286
  8. 8Oregon1 in 14,286

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.

Loki around the world

Where Loki 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
    #763
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2014–2025
    #647
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2014–2014
    #715
    in 2014
  • France
    2013–2025
    #4,507
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2002–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Notable people named Loki

People whose public names include Loki, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Loki in other languages

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

LogiLoke

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

Loki by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,858
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 527
Best rank ever
#1,235
2021
Peak year
2021
156 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,006
Count in 2025
85

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,221
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,317
Best rank ever
#8,759
2021
Peak year
2021
12 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
95
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Loki

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

LokenKeokiKokiNaokiHirokiFlokiTomokiLokeshTokiLokelaAnokiMotoki

Names with a curve like Loki

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

ZayvionCaysenLinkinJourneyJessiahAkselLakenIlyasBraxtynBenaiahDaviMalikai

Sibling names for Loki

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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