Lachlyn
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LOK-lin
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Lachlyn is a girls' name of Scottish origin, meaning “from the land of lochs (Norway)”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Lachlyn mean?
Scottish: feminine form of Lachlan
“from the land of lochs (Norway)”
Lachlan comes from Lochlann, the old Gaelic name for Norway or Scandinavia.
Is Lachlyn a girl's or a boy's name?
Lachlyn is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Lachlyn in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Lachlyn, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 2011.
Half of all the girls named Lachlyn in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 80 girls in the US were given Lachlyn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,979, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
Lachlyn in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 14 | #7,985 |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,234 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
Nicknames for Lachlyn
- Lachie
Names like Lachlyn
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Sevyn, Lakelynn, Lennon, Londyn, Braelynn, Teagan, Brynlee, Rynlee, Oaklynn, Finley, Eowyn, Lennox
Other spellings of Lachlyn
Names related to Lachlyn
More Scottish names
Isla, Logan, Arabella, Cameron, Bonnie, Paisley, Brody, Carson, Maxwell, Brodie, Finlay, Blair, Skye, Knox, Dallas, Reid
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, “Lachlyn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lachlyn, updated 20 October 2026.