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Lance

Pronounced /lɑːns/

Rank in 2024
#841
Born in 2024
290
Peak year
1970 · #76
Origin
Germanic

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 290 boys were named Lance, about 1 in every 5,915.
  • It peaked in 1970 with 4,160 babies, ranked #76.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1899.
  • 105,563 boys have been named Lance since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Lance per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. 0.1
    Silent
  3. 0.6
    Boomers
  4. 1.2
    Gen X
  5. 0.9
    Millennials
  6. 0.5
    Gen Z
  7. 0.2
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 487 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Silent: 2,858 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Boomers: 21,606 babies, 0.58 per 1,000. Gen X: 33,979 babies, 1.25 per 1,000. Millennials: 26,965 babies, 0.89 per 1,000. Gen Z: 15,062 babies, 0.48 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 4,593 babies, 0.21 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

The surname is derived from a medieval given name Lanzo, short form of names beginning with the Germanic element *land; see land. Doublet of Lanzo.

  • A male given name from the Germanic languages; by folk etymology associated with a lance.
  • A diminutive of the male given name Lancelot.
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Germanic
Say it
/lɑːns/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Lance, CC BY-SA 4.0.