Lachlan is the English form of Old Irish Lochlainn for ‘Viking, Scandinavian’. It developed from the word Lochlann, the Old Irish word for Scandinavia, which means ‘land of the lakes’.
Lachlan is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Lachlan isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Lachlan ranks 713. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Lachlan. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Lachlan.
Lachlan is the English form of Old Irish Lochlainn for ‘Viking, Scandinavian’. It developed from the word Lochlann, the Old Irish word for Scandinavia, which means ‘land of the lakes’.
The name Lachlan is known since at least... the 12th century. It was especially popular in Australia and New Zealand in the 2000s and 2010s.
Lachlan is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Lachlan cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #636 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2020. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Lachlan, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Lachlan seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lachlan was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
361 babies were named Lachlan in 2022 - that's 1 in 470,630 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Lachlan ranked 676 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Lachlan, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 38 states are home to men and boys named Lachlan. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Lachlan living in one state or another. If your name is Lachlan and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Washington, which has the most people named Lachlan relative to the population, you still have to ask 11,525 men and boys their names before you hear Lachlan as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.1% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With seven letters, the name Lachlan has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all boys' names starting with an L, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with L that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Larry.
If your name is Lachlan and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Lachlan, you can simply say:
Lion
Apple
Cat
Hat
Lion
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lachlan
Lachlan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
A
C
H
L
A
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
L
A
C
H
L
A
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Lachlan sounds like this:
