Locklyn

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 36 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
36
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Locklyn by the numbers

Locklyn was given to 36 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 51 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Locklyn

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Locklyn. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Lochlynfrom the lochs; a modern spelling of Lochlan or Lachlan27 in the US (2017)
  • Locklynn9 in the US (2017)
  • Loralynlaurel; a modern blend of Laura and Lynn5 in the US (2017)
  • Laiklyn30 in the US (2017)
  • Lachlyn13 in the US (2017)
  • Lovelyn11 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Locklyn

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