Lachlan
Top 1000
About Lachlan
Lachlan is as Scottish as haggis and tartan plaid kilts—a favorite used throughout England, Scotland, Australia, and New Zealand—and just beginning to be noticed in the US: it reached the Top 1000 for the first time in 2013. An ancient name, Lachlan was originally used to describe the Viking invaders of Scotland, those from the land of the lochs.
Americans and Australians tend to pronounce the first syllable of the name like Lock, but the genuine Scottish pronunciation sounds more like Lack.
In Ireland, the name was Anglicized as Laughlin; in Scotland the pet forms are Lach, Lachie, or Lockie.
Lachlan has been a top name in Australia for at least a decade. It has been in the headlines recently via the eldest son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
Somewhat surprisingly, Lachlan has US presidential cred, as the son of tenth president John Tyler, whose other children included Lyon, Letitia, Tazewell, and Pearl.
Pronounced LAK-lun.
As of October 2026, Lachlan ranked #606 in US births in 2025 SSA, Nameberry popularity #107.
Editor: Pamela Redmond
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #911 | 236 | 122.9 |
| 2015 | #767 | 311 | 162.3 |
| 2016 | #701 | 354 | 186.5 |
| 2017 | #699 | 353 | 190.7 |
| 2018 | #687 | 355 | 195.5 |
| 2019 | #690 | 369 | 205.7 |
| 2020 | #705 | 358 | 207.4 |
| 2021 | #726 | 356 | 203.5 |
| 2022 | #746 | 345 | 197.6 |
| 2023 | #771 | 333 | 194.7 |
| 2024 | #691 | 389 | 225.8 |
| 2025 | #606 | 468 | 274 |
World rankings
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Lachlan on lists
Famous Lachlans
- Lachlan Macquarie
Australian politician; Governor of New South Wales
- Lachlan Keith Murdoch
Australian businessman; son of media magnate Rupert Murdoch
- Lachlan Buchanan
Australian actor
- Lachlan Keeffe
Australian rules footballer
- Lachlan Hansen
Australian rules footballer
- Lachlan Plowman
Australian rules footballer
- Lachlan Nieboer
English actor
- Lachlan David "Lachie" Turner
Australian rugby union player
- Lachlan West
member of Australian band The Griswolds
- Lachlan Ross Power aka LachlanPlayz
Australian YouTuber
- Lachlan Tyler
son of 10th U.S. President John Tyler
- Lachlan Stephens (b. 2012)
son of tennis player Cara Black and Brett Stephens
- Lachlan Caskey
member of Australian band Last Dinosaurs
- Lachlan Watson
nonbinary actor in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Lachlan in pop culture
- Lachlan Luthor
character on TV's "Smallville"
- Lachlan "Lachie" Fraser
character on Australian soap "Home and Away"
- Lachlan Moore
character on TV's "Jane the Virgin"
- Lachlan Drake
character in "American Horror Story: Hotel"