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How popular is the name Lorcan?
Births per year, rank history and how many Lorcans are alive today.
Lorcan (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 621st in 2025 with 60 babies given the name. It was almost as popular in 2014, with 59 babies given the name that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 970 in 2010 before climbing back to the 621st place it holds today. Numbers have been rising in recent years.
The Lorcan you are most likely to meet is around 2 years old. Half of all Lorcans born in England and Wales are between 7 and 23, and there are at least 1,300 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Lorcan - on average, only one in every 234 such rooms contains a Lorcan.
How many babies are named Lorcan each year?
Where does Lorcan rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Lorcan most popular?
Lorcan peaked in 2025, when 60 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Lorcan?
At least 1,300 people named Lorcan born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Lorcan?
Most living Lorcans are between 7 and 23; the most common age is about 2.
Is Lorcan becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.