The name Lance is a diminutive form of Lancelot.
The table below indicates the number of times the name Lance has been given to baby boys in recent years.
The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004.
The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.
Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Lance
Use of the Name Lance for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years
50 Years
25 Years
10 Years
5 Years
2 Years
1 Year
93,939
85,190
37,551
10,976
6,040
2,311
1,149
The table below indicates the number of times the name Lance has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004.
Lance first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1901, which is the first year shown on the table.
A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.
Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Lance
Used as a Boy Name
Used as a Girl Name
Year
Rank
Count
Rank
Count
1901
901
7
1902
894
8
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
994
41
1936
703
72
1937
723
70
1938
339
267
1939
323
291
1940
358
254
1941
369
249
1942
332
338
1943
357
293
1944
297
403
1945
298
401
1946
316
414
1947
279
600
1948
268
610
1949
263
614
1950
249
735
1951
246
747
1952
257
705
1953
261
713
1954
231
917
1955
222
1,053
1956
218
1,117
1957
222
1,156
1958
231
1,126
1959
203
1,431
1960
171
1,877
1961
173
1,800
1962
160
2,003
1963
166
1,868
1964
157
2,090
1965
169
1,754
1966
156
1,808
1967
152
1,804
1968
144
1,987
1969
103
3,026
1970
76
4,145
1971
98
3,166
1972
126
2,249
1973
148
1,681
1974
159
1,525
1975
163
1,494
1976
145
1,729
1977
140
1,916
1978
134
1,968
1979
142
1,866
1980
152
1,780
1981
160
1,681
1982
142
1,970
1983
135
1,959
1984
126
2,134
1985
130
2,152
1986
134
2,048
1987
142
1,992
1988
147
1,884
1989
165
1,825
1990
181
1,697
1991
197
1,570
1992
204
1,507
1993
230
1,258
1994
257
1,118
1995
258
1,091
1996
268
1,048
1997
298
915
1998
316
880
1999
288
1,002
2000
267
1,220
2001
256
1,281
2002
261
1,228
2003
269
1,162
2004
275
1,149
Totals:
93,939
0
During the last 125 years, parents have used Lance as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name.
Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Lance appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 72 times during the last 125 years.