girls:
10 births since 2019
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
662 births since 1886
#3925 (14th percentile)
overall:
672 births since 1886
#7067 (9th percentile)
The name Lofton is the #7,067 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 672 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 8.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,925 (14.4% percentile) for all time with 662 births since 1886. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 2019.
Lofton first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (1886 for boys and 2019 for girls). Birth data for Lofton is available in 75 out of the 138 years between 1886 and 2023 (75 years for boys and 2 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 Lofton has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Lofton reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #531) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1886, with 42 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Lofton ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 10.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Lofton reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #940) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lofton".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Lofton. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.8% confident that Lofton is pronounced as LAWF-tuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LAHF-tuhn, at 20.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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