Locke
- #2,183 for boys in 2025, 65 births
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 74 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,063since 1916
Locke over time
Rank among boys' names. Locke has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,183 | 65 |
| 2024 | #2,476 | 55 |
| 2023 | #2,188 | 65 |
| 2022 | #2,355 | 60 |
| 2021 | #2,732 | 46 |
| 2020 | #2,113 | 66 |
| 2019 | #2,364 | 57 |
| 2018 | #2,325 | 57 |
| 2017 | #2,217 | 60 |
| 2016 | #1,959 | 74 |
| 2015 | #2,641 | 46 |
| 2014 | #2,082 | 67 |
| 2013 | #3,060 | 36 |
| 2012 | #3,530 | 30 |
| 2011 | #2,950 | 39 |
| 2010 | #3,239 | 34 |
| 2009 | #3,721 | 28 |
| 2008 | #4,901 | 19 |
| 2007 | #5,901 | 14 |
| 2006 | #5,072 | 17 |
| 2005 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | — | |
| 2003 | #7,831 | 8 |
| 2002 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | #8,339 | 7 |
| 2000 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #8,110 | 6 |
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| 1993 | #7,638 | 6 |
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| 1987 | #6,089 | 6 |
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| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
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| 1969 | #3,935 | 6 |
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| 1963 | #4,048 | 5 |
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| 1957 | #3,993 | 5 |
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| 1952 | #3,373 | 6 |
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| 1948 | #2,608 | 9 |
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| 1942 | #2,940 | 7 |
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| 1930 | #4,001 | 5 |
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| 1924 | #3,867 | 6 |
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| 1921 | #3,869 | 6 |
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| 1916 | #3,897 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Locke! It came in at #3,897, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1920, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Locke is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oklahoma#698 · 1 in 3,536
- Colorado#756 · 1 in 4,475
- Texas#1,760 · 1 in 19,450
Best ever in a state: #514 in Utah, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Oklahoma | #698 | 5 | 1 in 3,536 |
| Colorado | #756 | 6 | 1 in 4,475 |
| Texas | #1,760 | 9 | 1 in 19,450 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Locke
- 293 spots since 2024 (#2,476 → #2,183)
- 70 spots since 2020 (#2,113 → #2,183)
- 458 spots since 2015 (#2,641 → #2,183)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 2016 at #1,959 (74 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 25,645 boys born in 2016 were named Locke (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,278 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 47.0% of all boys named Locke (500) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,897 (1916) | #3,897 |
| 1920s | 12 | #3,867 (1924) | #3,868 |
| 1930s | 5 | #4,001 (1930) | #4,001 |
| 1940s | 16 | #2,608 (1948) | #2,774 |
| 1950s | 11 | #3,373 (1952) | #3,683 |
| 1960s | 11 | #3,935 (1969) | #3,992 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 11 | #6,089 (1987) | #6,164 |
| 1990s | 23 | #7,638 (1993) | #8,521 |
| 2000s | 112 | #3,721 (2009) | #7,054 |
| 2010s | 500 | #1,959 (2016) | #2,637 |
| 2020s | 357 | #2,113 (2020) | #2,341 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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