The origin and meaning of the name Loki are unknown, it possibly derived from the Germanic root ‘luką’ meaning ‘lock’.
Loki is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
Loki is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1356 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,355 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Loki.
The origin and meaning of the name Loki are unknown, it possibly derived from the Germanic root ‘luką’ meaning ‘lock’.
In Norse mythology,... Loki was a trickster god associated with magic and shape shifting. His children include the wolf Fenrir, the sea serpent Jörmungandr, and the queen of the dead Hel.
The odds that a man or boy named Loki lives in your home state are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This boy’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet boys and men with the name Loki in 21 states – which is obviously nearly every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida or Georgia. In relation to the number of residents, the most men and boys with the first name Loki live in Washington – here, one in 44,562 bears this name. In comparison, if we look at all living men and boys in the whole country, only one in 243,684 will turn around if you call his first name Loki.
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 four letters, the name Loki is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. 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 Loki 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 Loki, you can simply say:
Lion
Orange
Koala
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Loki
Loki
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
O
K
I
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
O
K
I
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. Loki sounds like this:
