Lc — boys' name
351 babies named Lc in U.S. Social Security records since 1917, with the highest year being 1990. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
25% of everyone ever named Lc was born in this single decade.
20 babies were named Lc in 1990 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Lc
The Social Security Administration has registered 351 babies named Lc between 1917 and 2019, spanning 103 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Lc currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 20 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Lc performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 86 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Lc shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Lc in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Lc in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 351 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Lc at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Lc popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1917
- Peak year (1990)
- 20
- Annual births at peak — across 103 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
351 total births across 103 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1990 with 20 births in a single year.
Lc by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 86 births that decade — 25% of Lc's all-time total
Lc decade highlights
- Peak decade 86 births
- Runner-up 76 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Lc's strongest decade
86 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 25% of all-time use.
Lc by state
Where Lc concentrates geographically — total births since 1917
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Illinois | | 6 | 1.7% |
6 of 351 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Illinois 1.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Illinois accounts for 1.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1917–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.