Boys' name · since 2000
Lochlainn
Lochlainn has 52 recorded births since 2000 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2019 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #21,928 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #10,172 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 52
- born since 2000
- 2020s
- peak decade
Lochlainn currently ranks #10172 among boys' names in America, with 52 babies recorded since 2000.
Lochlainn has 52 recorded births among boys since 2000, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #10172 as of the latest data, more common than 27% of boys, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2000 to 2025.
- #21,928 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #10,172 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 52 born since 2000
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Lochlainn ranks #21,928 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #10,172 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 52 born since 2000, peaking in the 2020s.
- #21,928 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #10,172 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 52
- born since 2000
- 2020s
- peak decade
Lochlainn's 52 recorded births place it above 51.66% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Lochlainn compares
52 17th percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Lochlainn's all-time total is 86% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Lochlainn | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 52 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 9 | 34 | 22,252 |
Lochlainn's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Lochlainn's full recorded timeline at 2021, 48% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 52% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2000, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2019 peak of 9 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Lochlainn popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2000–2025
- Peak year (2019)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 26 years of records
Lochlainn by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (32 births, 62% of the file).
2020s was Lochlainn's strongest decade.
32 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 62% of all-time use.
Lochlainn births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 5
2000s
5 births
- 2010s
2010s
15 births
- 2020s
2020s
32 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 32 births (62% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2000–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Lochlainn draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.