Buchanan
- Gender
- Boy
- US rank, 2025
- #6,442 for boys
Buchanan is a boys' name. In 2025 it ranked 6,442nd for boys in the US (13 babies).
What does Buchanan mean?
A male given name transferred from the surname.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Buchanan a girl's or a boy's name?
Buchanan is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Buchanan in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,442among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 13about 1 in 130,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 13 boys in the US were named Buchanan, making it the 6,442nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. It first appears in the records in 1996.
2025 had the most boys named Buchanan of any year since it first appeared, in 1996.
Half of all the boys named Buchanan in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Buchanan in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,442 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,307 |
| 2023 | 6 | #10,815 |
| 2022 | 7 | #9,815 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,582 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,497 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,209 |
| 2018 | 6 | #10,754 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,659 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,739 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,236 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 5 | #9,905 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,008 |
Names like Buchanan
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Finnegan Callahan Cassian Callan Caspian Ronan Akari Declan Chozen Kaizen Lachlan Braylen
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Buchanan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/buchanan, updated 20 October 2026.