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Lachlan

LACK-lin or LOCK-lin
Scottish
"from the fjord-land"
Clare Green
By Clare Green
Updated Tue Mar 18 2025

Lachlan Origin and Meaning

The name Lachlan is a boy's name of Scottish origin meaning "from the fjord-land".

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.

# 771 in the US

Lachlan Rank in US Top 1000

# 90 on Nameberry

Lachlan Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

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Famous People Named Lachlan

  • 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

The name 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"

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