Loan

Where Loan comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Loan.

Loan through the years
  1. 1976
    First appearance
    #4,363 among girls with 14 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1982
    Peak, #2,369
    41 babies named Loan, the most in any year.
  3. 1988
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #5,065.
  4. 2023
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes

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