girls:
345 births since 1956
#5371 (6th percentile)
boys:
105.3k births since 1899
#294 (94th percentile)
overall:
105.6k births since 1899
#651 (92nd percentile)
The name Lance is the #651 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 105,610 recorded births since 1899. This represents the 91.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #294 (93.6% percentile) for all time with 105,265 births since 1899. For girls, it ranks #5,371 (6.0% percentile) for all time with 345 births since 1956.
Lance first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1899 (1899 for boys and 1956 for girls). Birth data for Lance is available in 124 out of the 125 years between 1899 and 2023 (124 years for boys and 33 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Lance has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Lance reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 88.8% percentile (ranked #76) with 2,185 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 2,185 births per million (ranked 88.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2005, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Lance ranks #626 for boys (31.3% percentile) with 163 births per million, which is 7.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Lance reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #769) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lance".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Lance is pronounced as lans, which has 1 syllables.
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