Lancé
loc · Latin script
Meaning: past participle of lancer
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lancé is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 3.6K
- CACanada≈1 in 3.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 555 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
86,540 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Lance in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more and Lantz in IE Ireland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
past participle of lancer
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lancé counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #481 | 86,540 | 1 in 3.8K | 86K | Lance | 555 |
| GB United Kingdom | #574 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | 25 | Lance | 225 |
| CA Canada | #497 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | 3 | Lance | 223 |
| ZA South Africa | #881 | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Lance | 111 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Lance | 136 |
| AU Australia | #528 | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 64 | Lance | 200 |
| NZ New Zealand | #250 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 10 | Lance | 118 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Lantz | 28 |
86,540 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lancé is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, first-person singular preterite indicative of lanzar
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lancé mean, and where does it come from?
- past participle of lancer Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Lancé have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 87 thousand people named Lancé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lance.
- How common is the name Lancé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 86,540 people named Lancé in 2020, about 1 in 3.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Lancé compared with other names?
- In the United States, Lancé is the 481st most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lanc%C3%A9The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Lancé” — the 481st most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.