Given name & surname
Lohan
Lohan is a surname from Irish, ultimately from Old Irish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Lohan comes from Irish, and ultimately from Old Irish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2012. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lohan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 78
- 78 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 24 babies
- 2025
- 24
- #4,330 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 24 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 4,330 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 518 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lohan’s family of names
In English usage, Lohan has a short form in Li-Lo. In English usage, Lohan as a surname has a related form in Logan. In English usage, Lohan as a surname has a related form in Logan.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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