Loc
loc · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Loc is a name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Spanish and French, written in the Latin script.
- CDCongo - Kinshasa1 in 6.3K◐
- USUnited States1 in 84K
- ISIceland1 in 88K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.1K ●
- Sources
- 146 ●
- 1 in 84K ◐
across 8 countries
30K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lộc in AU Australia, DE Germany, VN Vietnam, Loec in CA Canada, FR France and Loèc in CD Congo - Kinshasa.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,947 | 24K rec. | 1 in 84K | 3.9K | Loc | 146 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #113 | 525 | 540 rec. | — | — | Loèc | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 80△ | 9 rec. | 1 in 128K | 80 | — | 4 |
| CA Canada | — | 29 | 407 rec. | — | — | Loec | 27 |
| AU Australia | — | 27 | 1.6K rec. | — | 1 | Lộc | 77 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 24 | 47 rec. | 1 in 720K | 24 | — | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 23 | 66 rec. | — | — | Loc | 7 |
| DE Germany | — | 19 | 467 rec. | — | — | Lộc | 52 |
| FI Finland | — | 11 | 9 rec. | 1 in 507K | 79 | — | 5 |
| DK Denmark | — | 10 | — | 1 in 587K | 10 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 7 | 4 rec. | 1 in 5.5M | 85 | — | 1 |
| VN Vietnam | — | 7 | 8 rec. | — | listed | Lộc | 4 |
Roughly 3.9K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 84K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Spanish383K3%
- French5571%
- Italian3131%
- Portuguese2331%
- Vietnamese2131%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 383,473 | 3% |
| French | 557 | 1% |
| Italian | 313 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 233 | 1% |
| Vietnamese | 213 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Loc is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In sga, place (usually inhabited, or suited thereto)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Initialism of Library of Congress.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, lock (on a canal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, place, location
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Albanian, dear, darling
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, hindrance
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1979 | 8 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1981 | 8 |
| 1982 | 17 |
| 1983 | 6 |
| 1984 | 12 |
| 1986 | 11 |
| 1987 | 10 |
| 1988 | 10 |
| 1989 | 8 |
| 1990 | 10 |
| 1991 | 12 |
| 1992 | 12 |
| 1993 | 10 |
| 1994 | 9 |
| 1995 | 7 |
| 1996 | 10 |
| 1997 | 11 |
| 1998 | 6 |
| 1999 | 8 |
| 2000 | 8 |
| 2001 | 7 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2003 | 11 |
| 2004 | 9 |
| 2005 | 5 |
| 2006 | 7 |
| 2007 | 6 |
| 2009 | 8 |
| 2011 | 7 |
| 2012 | 6 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2021 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 33 years between 1979–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Nguyễn Lộcb. 1912VNVietnamese martial artist (1912–1960)
- Nguyễn Phúc Bửu Lộcb. 1914FRPrime Minister of the State of Vietnam (1914-1990)
- Nguyễn Văn Lộcb. 1922VNPrime Minister of South Vietnam
- Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Lộcb. 1926VNSouth Vietnamese commander
- Vũ Tiến Lộcb. 1960VNVietnamese politician
- Tone Lōcb. 1966USAmerican rapper
- Trần Thị Lộcb. 1975VNVietnamese politician
- Nguyễn Tài Lộcb. 1989VNassociation football player
- Hoài Lâmb. 1995VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese singer and actor
- Andrej LocSIcorrespondence chess player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 29 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.9K | #4,148 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 682 | #4,148 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 582 | #40,538 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 496 | #43,511 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 390 | #50,366 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 110 | #7,248 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 85 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 85 | #34,141 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 80 | #9,909 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 79 | #5,940 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 76 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 76 | #36,681 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 68 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Loc?
- We estimate roughly 4.1 thousand people bear Loc (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Loc have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 3.9 thousand people bear Loc in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled loc.
- How common is Loc compared with other names?
- In the Congo - Kinshasa, Loc is the 113th most common given name of 18,770 given names recorded there.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Loc” — the 113th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.