Lochlan

Where Lochlan comes from

Variant of Lachlan.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lochlan
  • Scottish Gaelic
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1998
    First appearance
    #6,843 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2025
    Peak, #644
    433 babies named Lochlan — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Scottish Gaelic.
Namesakes

No widely known Lochlan turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.