Locke
Locke was given to 65 boys in 2025, #2,198 among boys’ names; 1,063 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,020 Americans named Locke and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Locke by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Locke?
#2,198 among boys’ names, 2025
Locke rose from #2,665 in 2015 to #2,198 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 24.0 to 38.1 per million.
74 babies in 2016, the peak
Locke peaked in 2016, when 74 boys were given it, #1,966 among boys’ names. The 65 births of 2025 are 88% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | #2,198 | 38.1 |
| 2024 | 55 | #2,492 | 31.9 |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,210 | 38.0 |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,365 | 34.4 |
| 2021 | 46 | #2,758 | 26.3 |
| 2020 | 66 | #2,127 | 38.2 |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,381 | 31.8 |
| 2018 | 57 | #2,341 | 31.4 |
| 2017 | 60 | #2,227 | 32.4 |
| 2016 | 74 | #1,966 | 39.0 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #2,665 | 24.0 |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,088 | 34.9 |
| 2013 | 36 | #3,099 | 19.0 |
| 2012 | 30 | #3,591 | 15.8 |
| 2011 | 39 | #2,974 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 34 | #3,280 | 17.7 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,785 | 14.1 |
| 2008 | 19 | #4,991 | 9.3 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,137 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,214 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,940 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,311 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 7 | #9,014 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,858 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,830 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,429 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,623 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,826 | 3.2 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,264 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,618 | 3.2 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,892 | 2.8 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,216 | 3.4 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,396 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,317 | 2.3 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,582 | 3.1 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,709 | 5.1 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,095 | 5.1 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,323 | 4.6 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,148 | 5.3 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,144 | 5.4 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,259 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Locke a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Locke has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Locke: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Locke, and how old are they?
1,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,063 Americans ever recorded as Locke. The median Locke alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 830 people named Locke (52 women and girls, 778 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 685 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 16 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 16 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 229 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 748 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,265 babies since 1880, Locke is the second most given (33% of them). In 2025 it was given to 65 of their 173 babies (38%), again the second 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 Locke
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 Locke and names like it
- Compare Locke and LokiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Locke since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Locke.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Locke alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.