Lachlann
Lachlan is a masculine given name of Scottish Gaelic origin.
- Scottish Gaelic
Meaning & Origin of Lachlann
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Lachlan is a masculine given name of Scottish Gaelic origin.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Scottish Gaelic
The Story of Lachlann
Lachlann first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 2014, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2023: 13 births, good for #6,513 nationwide. About 51% of every Lachlann on record arrived during the 2020s, its defining decade. Lachlann last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 49 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 2010s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Lachlann
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About the name Lachlann
Lachlann is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 2014 and has accumulated 49 births in the dataset. Lachlann's peak popularity came in 2023 when it ranked #6,513. Use the chart and map above to compare Lachlann's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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