Loki
Loki was given to 85 boys in 2025, #1,858 among boys’ names; 2,101 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,080 Americans named Loki and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% 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 Loki by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Loki mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Loki is “a male given name from Old Norse.”
Borrowed from Old Norse Loki, where further etymology is shown.
/ˈloʊki/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Loki?
#1,858 among boys’ names, 2025
Loki fell from #1,458 in 2015 to #1,858 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 60.5 to 49.8 per million.
168 babies in 2021, the peak
Loki peaked in 2021, when 168 babies were given it (156 boys, #1,235 among boys’ names). The 91 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 54% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 85 | #1,858 | 49.8 |
| 2024 | 94 | #1,761 | 54.6 |
| 2023 | 111 | #1,571 | 64.9 |
| 2022 | 136 | #1,377 | 77.9 |
| 2021 | 156 | #1,235 | 89.2 |
| 2020 | 135 | #1,331 | 78.2 |
| 2019 | 150 | #1,257 | 83.6 |
| 2018 | 123 | #1,428 | 67.7 |
| 2017 | 92 | #1,712 | 49.7 |
| 2016 | 94 | #1,680 | 49.5 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 116 | #1,458 | 60.5 |
| 2014 | 112 | #1,462 | 58.3 |
| 2013 | 87 | #1,703 | 46.0 |
| 2012 | 77 | #1,889 | 40.6 |
| 2011 | 71 | #1,958 | 37.4 |
| 2010 | 56 | #2,305 | 29.2 |
| 2009 | 53 | #2,429 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 55 | #2,365 | 27.0 |
| 2007 | 52 | #2,464 | 25.1 |
| 2006 | 39 | #2,911 | 19.0 |
| 2005 | 32 | #3,204 | 16.0 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,152 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,211 | 10.1 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,418 | 9.3 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,806 | 8.2 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,932 | 2.6 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,930 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Loki a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,101 Americans recorded as Loki, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls and 85 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Loki: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Loki, and how old are they?
2,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,101 Americans ever recorded as Loki. The median Loki alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,343 people named Loki (132 women and girls, 1,211 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,368 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 522 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,560 |
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 Loki born?
The states with the most babies named Loki are Washington, Missouri and California, with 67% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Washington and Missouri are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 7 | #858 | 1.4× |
| Missouri | 7 | #762 | 0.9× |
| California | 6 | #2,360 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,807 | 0.4× |
| New York | 5 | #1,936 | 0.3× |
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 Loki 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,265 babies since 1880, Loki is the most given (64% of them). In 2025 it was given to 91 of their 173 babies (53%), 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 Loki
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 Loki and names like it
- Compare Loki and LockeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLoki peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Loki since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Loki.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Loki alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.