Loc

loc · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Loc is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 72K(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 117K
  • SESweden1 in 128K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Loc itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)

≈12,000 named Loèc, est.

Sources
180 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LoècLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Loèc in CD Congo - Kinshasa and Loec in CA Canada.

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

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(measured from records)

Loc 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.

Where Loc is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CD Congo - Kinshasa#168≈12,000 est.≈1 in 8.6K—Loèc3
US United States—4,6291 in 72K3.9KLoc180
SE Sweden—801 in 128K80—4
NL Netherlands—241 in 720K24—5
CA Canada—≈12 est.≈1 in 3.1M—Loec40
FI Finland—111 in 507K79—3
IS Iceland—31 in 117K3——

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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Loc is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Vietnam, Brazil, India

    Also written Lộc, Lôc, Lóc, Löç, Lọc

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Lôc, Lọc, Lộc

  • Spanish name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Brazil, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Lộc, Lọc, Lôc

  • Hindi name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Lộc, Lóc, Löc, Lốc, Lọc

56 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019502000Nguyễn Lộc, b. 1912Nguyễn Phúc Bửu Lộc, b. 1914Nguyễn Văn Lộc, b. 1922Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Lộc, b. 1926Vũ Tiến Lộc, b. 1960Tone Lōc, b. 1966Trần Thị Lộc, b. 1975Nguyễn Tài Lộc, b. 1989Hoài Lâm, b. 1995

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(measured from records)

Attested in 30 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Loc
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.9K#4,148
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020682#4,148
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020582#40,538
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010496#43,511
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000390#50,366
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—80#9,909
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—79#3,604
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—35#10,059
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—24#10,474
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198217—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199212—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199112—

Reference works 4

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

In which country does Loc have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Loèc in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Loc most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Loc is densest in the United States — about 1 in 72 thousand people — even though Congo - Kinshasa holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Loc?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,629 people named Loc in 2020, about 1 in 72 thousand residents.
How common is Loc compared with other names?
In Congo - Kinshasa, Loc is the 168th most common given name of 20,652 given names recorded there.

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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, “Loc” — the 168th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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