How rare is the name Loan?

8,034 people in the United States have the first name Loan, about 1 in 37,594. It ranks #2,863 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

LOAN

#2,863

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,034
About
1 in 37,594
This common or more
81.1%
Who bears it

Of the 8,034 people named Loan, 96.6% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander and 1.7% as White. 97.9% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Loan peaked in 1982, when 41 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19762025
Peak year
1982
Births that year
41
In 2025*
14 ▼66%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 458 babies have been given the name since 1976. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Loan by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #5,245. The largest share of babies named Loan, 69.9%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1970s#11,35956
1980s#5,245268
1990s#13,20897
2000s#47,6555
2020s#22,49532
Generation X 1965–8019.2%
Millennials 1981–9669.9%
Generation Z 1997–123.9%
2013 and later7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Either side of Loan

#2,861 Dalila · 8,048#2,862 Lisbeth · 8,040#2,864 Sade · 8,033#2,865 Merry · 8,030

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Loan, most common first.

#3,381 Lon · 6,253#21,351 Loann · 476#24,098 Lonn · 402#30,018 Loana · 292#44,702 Louan · 154

Also a last name

As a last name, Loan ranks #36,675 of 156,621, with 656 people. See Loan as a last name

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