Meaning not yet researched.
Loki: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 85 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,235 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,235 in 2021; #1,858 in 2025. About 93% of babies named Loki in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,858 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,235.
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Loki: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 85 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,235 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 156 (2021).
In 2025, 85 US boys were named Loki, making it the 1,858th most common boys’ name of the year, down 97 places from #1,761 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 94 boys named Loki in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,235, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 156. For comparison, it was #1,458 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Loki in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 5 babies. In all, 2,101 US babies have been given the name, 4.5% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,020 babies named Loki.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,176 US boys were named Loki; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 156. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,095 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Loki ranked highest in Missouri in 2025, at #762 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Lockie are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lockie (464).
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 Loki 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 7 | #762 | — |
| Washington | 7 | #858 | #898 |
| New York | 5 | #1,936 | #1,986 |
| California | 6 | #2,360 | #1,189 |
| Texas | 5 | #2,807 | #2,044 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,225 | 85 | #1,858 |
| 2024 | — | — | 94 | #1,761 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,779 | 111 | #1,571 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,885 | 136 | #1,377 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,764 | 156 | #1,235 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,543 | 135 | #1,331 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,484 | 150 | #1,257 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,268 | 123 | #1,428 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,381 | 92 | #1,712 |
| 2016 | — | — | 94 | #1,680 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,634 | 116 | #1,458 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,615 | 112 | #1,462 |
| 2013 | — | — | 87 | #1,704 |
| 2012 | — | — | 77 | #1,890 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,431 | 71 | #1,959 |
| 2010 | — | — | 56 | #2,306 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,182 | 53 | #2,430 |
| 2008 | — | — | 55 | #2,366 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,334 | 52 | #2,464 |
| 2006 | — | — | 39 | #2,912 |
| 2005 | — | — | 32 | #3,208 |
| 2004 | — | — | 16 | #5,157 |
| 2003 | — | — | 20 | #4,216 |
| 2002 | — | — | 18 | #4,424 |
| 2001 | — | — | 16 | #4,812 |
| 1999 | — | — | 5 | #10,940 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #9,937 |
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).