Meaning not yet researched.
Lance: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 279 in 2025. Its best rank was #76 in 1970.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #76 in 1970; #862 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lance in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#862 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1970, at #76.
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Lance: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 279 boys in 2025. Peak: #76 in 1970 · most boys in one year: 4,160 (1970).
In 2025, 279 US boys were named Lance, making it the 862nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 22 places from #840 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 291 boys named Lance in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #76, reached in 1970. That year also had the most boys given the name: 4,160. For comparison, it was #604 in 2015 and #249 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lance in 126 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1899 with 5 babies. In all, 106,184 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 21,913 babies named Lance.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,451 US boys were named Lance; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 438. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,122 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lance ranked highest in North Dakota in 2025, at #241 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lanny (9,644 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lancelot and Lank are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lancelot (638), Lank (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Lance in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 28 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 5 | #241 | — |
| Iowa | 8 | #427 | #438 |
| Louisiana | 10 | #475 | #482 |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #551 | #638 |
| Washington | 13 | #553 | #815 |
| Kansas | 6 | #561 | — |
| Missouri | 10 | #581 | #454 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #601 | #482 |
| Colorado | 8 | #656 | #616 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #755 | #612 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #763 | #415 |
| Florida | 19 | #792 | #615 |
| Indiana | 7 | #815 | #858 |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #818 | #467 |
| Ohio | 10 | #839 | #579 |
| Illinois | 9 | #907 | #692 |
| North Carolina | 9 | #908 | #872 |
| California | 25 | #923 | #695 |
| Michigan | 7 | #961 | #519 |
| Texas | 23 | #1,029 | #581 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,037 | #705 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,175 | #469 |
| New York | 5 | #1,926 | #786 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 279 | #862 |
| 2024 | — | — | 291 | #840 |
| 2023 | — | — | 302 | #814 |
| 2022 | — | — | 320 | #788 |
| 2021 | — | — | 305 | #804 |
| 2020 | — | — | 315 | #765 |
| 2019 | — | — | 398 | #664 |
| 2018 | — | — | 394 | #651 |
| 2017 | — | — | 409 | #636 |
| 2016 | — | — | 438 | #617 |
| 2015 | — | — | 454 | #604 |
| 2014 | — | — | 512 | #541 |
| 2013 | — | — | 459 | #568 |
| 2012 | — | — | 541 | #494 |
| 2011 | — | — | 575 | #468 |
| 2010 | — | — | 604 | #444 |
| 2009 | — | — | 639 | #438 |
| 2008 | — | — | 751 | #395 |
| 2007 | — | — | 826 | #372 |
| 2006 | — | — | 1,003 | #319 |
| 2005 | — | — | 1,256 | #264 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,616 | 1,161 | #275 |
| 2003 | — | — | 1,167 | #269 |
| 2002 | — | — | 1,232 | #261 |
| 2001 | — | — | 1,286 | #256 |
| 2000 | — | — | 1,221 | #267 |
| 1999 | — | — | 1,003 | #287 |
| 1998 | — | — | 880 | #316 |
| 1997 | — | — | 918 | #298 |
| 1996 | — | — | 1,048 | #268 |
| 1995 | — | — | 1,095 | #257 |
| 1994 | — | — | 1,119 | #258 |
| 1993 | — | — | 1,259 | #230 |
| 1992 | — | — | 1,507 | #204 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,911 | 1,574 | #197 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,186 | 1,697 | #182 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,693 | 1,823 | #165 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,435 | 1,894 | #146 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,555 | 1,993 | #142 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,384 | 2,051 | #134 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,953 | 2,152 | #130 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,861 | 2,135 | #127 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,015 | 1,962 | #135 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,075 | 1,974 | #142 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,109 | 1,682 | #160 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,854 | 1,786 | #152 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,604 | 1,867 | #142 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,765 | 1,971 | #134 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,789 | 1,925 | #139 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,948 | 1,734 | #144 |
| 1975 | — | — | 1,497 | #163 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,281 | 1,527 | #159 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,067 | 1,682 | #148 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,632 | 2,253 | #126 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,040 | 3,175 | #98 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,374 | 4,160 | #76 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,258 | 3,026 | #103 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,697 | 1,991 | #144 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,212 | 1,803 | #152 |
| 1966 | — | — | 1,819 | #156 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,660 | 1,754 | #169 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,233 | 2,089 | #157 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,611 | 1,866 | #166 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,076 | 2,003 | #160 |
| 1961 | — | — | 1,807 | #173 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,973 | 1,876 | #171 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,923 | 1,430 | #203 |
| 1958 | — | — | 1,133 | #231 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,591 | 1,158 | #222 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,630 | 1,116 | #218 |
| 1955 | — | — | 1,059 | #221 |
| 1954 | — | — | 921 | #231 |
| 1953 | — | — | 710 | #262 |
| 1952 | — | — | 707 | #257 |
| 1951 | — | — | 751 | #245 |
| 1950 | — | — | 735 | #249 |
| 1949 | — | — | 617 | #263 |
| 1948 | — | — | 609 | #268 |
| 1947 | — | — | 606 | #275 |
| 1946 | — | — | 414 | #316 |
| 1945 | — | — | 400 | #299 |
| 1944 | — | — | 404 | #298 |
| 1943 | — | — | 295 | #357 |
| 1942 | — | — | 338 | #330 |
| 1941 | — | — | 247 | #371 |
| 1940 | — | — | 254 | #358 |
| 1939 | — | — | 291 | #322 |
| 1938 | — | — | 267 | #339 |
| 1937 | — | — | 70 | #726 |
| 1936 | — | — | 72 | #705 |
| 1935 | — | — | 41 | #1,002 |
| 1934 | — | — | 18 | #1,703 |
| 1933 | — | — | 35 | #1,113 |
| 1932 | — | — | 24 | #1,444 |
| 1931 | — | — | 24 | #1,441 |
| 1930 | — | — | 26 | #1,447 |
| 1929 | — | — | 28 | #1,358 |
| 1928 | — | — | 24 | #1,547 |
| 1927 | — | — | 31 | #1,339 |
| 1926 | — | — | 29 | #1,368 |
| 1925 | — | — | 26 | #1,478 |
| 1924 | — | — | 26 | #1,513 |
| 1923 | — | — | 24 | #1,574 |
| 1922 | — | — | 38 | #1,173 |
| 1921 | — | — | 40 | #1,132 |
| 1920 | — | — | 36 | #1,216 |
| 1919 | — | — | 29 | #1,335 |
| 1918 | — | — | 25 | #1,479 |
| 1917 | — | — | 32 | #1,212 |
| 1916 | — | — | 21 | #1,573 |
| 1915 | — | — | 23 | #1,436 |
| 1914 | — | — | 25 | #1,177 |
| 1913 | — | — | 13 | #1,547 |
| 1912 | — | — | 6 | #2,428 |
| 1911 | — | — | 5 | #1,883 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,734 |
| 1909 | — | — | 6 | #1,379 |
| 1908 | — | — | 8 | #1,070 |
| 1906 | — | — | 6 | #1,189 |
| 1905 | — | — | 7 | #1,040 |
| 1904 | — | — | 6 | #1,141 |
| 1903 | — | — | 5 | #1,220 |
| 1902 | — | — | 8 | #894 |
| 1901 | — | — | 7 | #901 |
| 1900 | — | — | 8 | #1,007 |
| 1899 | — | — | 5 | #1,141 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).