Lorcan

Peak · boys
2018 · 17 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
261
since 1997

Lorcan over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Lorcan has never cracked the top 5,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #5,320, 2018boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#8,2439
2024#7,25711
2023#5,47017
2022#6,14714
2021#6,03214
2020#8,0679
2019#7,64310
2018#5,32017
2017#8,1409
2016#6,72612
2015#9,5687
2014#5,73315
2013#6,60312
2012#9,7097
2011#10,8086
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2009#8,3109
2008#7,18711
2007#8,1739
2006#12,0555
2005#6,22612
2004#7,5369
2003#8,6437
2002#8,4567
2001#10,5565
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1998#8,4796
1997#8,1106
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First appearance
1997

The first year at least five boys were named Lorcan! It came in at #8,110, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 2000–2001, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Lorcan is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more boys named Lorcan in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Lorcan
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 986 spots since 2024 (#7,257 → #8,243)
  • 176 spots since 2020 (#8,067 → #8,243)
  • 1,325 spots since 2015 (#9,568 → #8,243)
Rise & fade · boys
21 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1997
  • Peaked 2018 at #5,320 (17 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 100,622
  • Highest: 1 in 100,622 boys born in 2023 were named Lorcan (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #5,320 in 2018, was only 1 in 106,833 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 36.4% of all boys named Lorcan (95) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s18#8,110 (1997)#8,431
2000s74#6,226 (2005)#8,571
2010s95#5,320 (2018)#7,806
2020s74#5,470 (2023)#6,869

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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