Loki

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Loki boys named Loki

By the numbers

Total US births

2,101

Estimated living today

2,100

Median age today

8

Peak year

2021

Best rank

1,230th

Rank in 2025

1,852nd

First recorded

1996

Girls / boys

95 / 2,006

How old the living Lokis are

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,101 babies given the name since 1996, about 2,100 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,900 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Old Norse

where further etymology is shown.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Lokis

• Loki Schmidt (1919–2010)German environmentalist

People named Loki with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Loki is most common

• CA177
• TX86
• WA67
• OH66
• PA43
• NY42
• MI42
• FL40
• MO38
• IN34

Relative to how many babies each state records, Loki is most concentrated in Washington (5.0×), Oregon (3.5×), Colorado (2.7×), California (2.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2021

The most popular boys’ names the year Loki peaked:

• Liam
• Noah
• Oliver
• Elijah
• James
• William

All the names of 2021

Loki elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Loki: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Loki: rank by region

In 2023, Loki was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Loki by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Loki among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.