Lochlan
Lochlan was given to 433 boys in 2025, #644 among boys’ names; 4,970 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,930 Americans named Lochlan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lochlan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lochlan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lochlan is “a male given name from Scottish Gaelic.”
Variant of Lachlan.
/ˈlɒ.klən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lochlan?
#644 among boys’ names, 2025
Lochlan rose from #843 in 2015 to #644 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.14 to 0.25 per 1,000.
444 babies in 2025, the peak
Lochlan peaked in 2025, when 444 babies were given it (433 boys, #644 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 323 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 433 | #644 | 0.25 |
| 2024 | 323 | #777 | 0.19 |
| 2023 | 297 | #824 | 0.17 |
| 2022 | 312 | #806 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 311 | #792 | 0.18 |
| 2020 | 337 | #729 | 0.20 |
| 2019 | 354 | #705 | 0.20 |
| 2018 | 359 | #683 | 0.20 |
| 2017 | 323 | #739 | 0.17 |
| 2016 | 314 | #771 | 0.17 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 267 | #843 | 0.14 |
| 2014 | 236 | #912 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 213 | #938 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 150 | #1,199 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 100 | #1,571 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 90 | #1,707 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 83 | #1,804 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 70 | #2,018 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,153 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 47 | #2,562 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 36 | #2,931 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 30 | #3,254 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 23 | #3,793 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 25 | #3,512 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,220 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,160 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,523 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,268 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lochlan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,970 Americans recorded as Lochlan, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 11 girls and 433 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lochlan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lochlan, and how old are they?
4,930 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,970 Americans ever recorded as Lochlan. The median Lochlan alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 2,851 people named Lochlan (93 women and girls, 2,758 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,961 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 763 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,170 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Lochlan born?
The states with the most babies named Lochlan are Texas, California and Michigan, with 21% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 31 | #850 | 0.6× |
| California | 26 | #895 | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 24 | #369 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 20 | #529 | 0.9× |
| Washington | 19 | #396 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 19 | #793 | 0.6× |
| New York | 17 | #825 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #623 | 1.1× |
| Minnesota | 15 | #384 | 1.6× |
| Tennessee | 15 | #512 | 1.2× |
Where Lochlan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lochlan is most over-represented in Utah: since 1998 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lochlan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,577 babies since 1880, Lochlan is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 444 of their 486 babies (91%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lochlan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lochlan and names like it
- Compare Lochlan and LochlannBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLochlan peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lochlan since 1910.
- Scottish Gaelic namesWiktionary’s origin for Lochlan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Lochlan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lochlan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.