Lancelot
About Lancelot
In Arthurian legend, Lancelot was one of the most dashing of the Knights of the Round Table who eventually had an affair with Queen Guinevere: it makes for a romantic story-- but perhaps overly romantic-- name.
An older spelling is Launcelot, as seen in Shakespeare's Launcelot Gabbo in The Merchant of Venice and two Tobias Smollett novels.
Short form Lance has had an independent life of his own.
As of October 2026, Lancelot ranked #7034 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #1507 in 1908.
Editor's take: The name Lancelot is a boy's name of French origin meaning "servant".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
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| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Lancelot on lists
Famous Lancelots
- Saint Lancelot Andrewes
Anglican bishop who oversaw the translation of the King James Version of the Bible
- Lancelot "Capability" Brown
English landscape architect
- Lancelot Thomas Hogben
English zoologist and statistician
- Lancelot Blackburne
English Archbishop of York and possible pirate
- Lancelot Speed
English illustrator
- Lancelot Andrew Noel Slocock
English rugby union player
- Lancelot Eldin "Lance" de Mole
Australian engineer and inventor
- Sir Lancelot Oliphant
British diplomat
- Neville Lancelot Goddard (1905
1972), metaphysical author
Lancelot in pop culture
- Sir Lancelot
knight of King Arthur legends
- Sir Lancelot Spratt
irascible surgeon in Richard Gordon's 'Doctor in the House' (1952) and its sequels
- "Lancelot Link
Secret Chimp," TV series about a talking chimpanzee spy