Lowan

#13,152 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Lowan has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2025. In 2025 it ranked #13,152 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Lowan, 2025

1 in 663,000

Lowan over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lowan: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lowan means

Lowan is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Lowan is used in Atayal.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Lowan between 2025 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2025; its best national rank was #13,152 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 Lowan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,152
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lowan 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lowan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lowans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lowan was born before 2025 — so the typical Lowan is around 0 today.

Median birth year
2025
About 0 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Lowan 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (5)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#13,152
2025

Spellings of Lowan

Lowan is not the most common spelling — Logan is, with 33.8% against Lowan's <0.01%.

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.

Lowan around the world

Where Lowan 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
    2007–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • France
    1999–2025
    #2,980
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1968–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lowan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,152
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#13,152
2025
Peak year
2025
5 that year
First recorded
2025
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Lowan

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

Sibling names for Lowan

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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