Lot

Boys' name

To cast, wrap up, through לוֹט

Lot has been given to 62 babies in the U.S. since 1884. 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 1918, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Lot, 2015

1 in 740,000

Lot over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lot: meaning, origin, and history

To cast, wrap up, through לוֹט

Hebrew

What Lot means

Lot belongs to the name family reached through Lot → לוֹט. Its meaning is “to cast, wrap up”.

Origin, language, and formation

Lot is used in English and Old Czech. Its origins include Hebrew.

Lot comes through Hebrew לוֹט.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lut and לוֹט.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Lot is pronounced /lɑt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 62 boys were recorded with the name Lot between 1884 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1918; its best national rank was #1,063 in 1884.

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.

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How common is Lot?

Lot had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015: 1 in 740,000; 5 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only: 1 in 383,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 513,148 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Lot 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 2015 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lot. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lots were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lot was born before 1923 — so the typical Lot is around 102 today.

Median birth year: 1923; About 102 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 30.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 24.2%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 15; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 30.6% of all recorded uses (19).

Is Lot 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 1918 (8)
Years since peak: 107; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Very steady; 0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,063; 1884

Lot around the world

Where Lot 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.

France
2020–2020
#5,755
in 2020

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Lot by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,063; 1884
Peak year: 1918; 8 that year
First recorded: 1884
Last recorded: 2015
All-time count: 62
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Lot

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

Lott Lotus Lotanna Lothar Pilot Lottie Lotis Lothrop Lancelot Lothario

Sibling names for Lot

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Winnifred Johnie Ray Maybelle Garnet Mathilda Verda Vesta

For a brother

Granville Valentine Ellsworth Orval Buster Omer Ferdinand Regis

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