Given name & surname
Lord
“one who has authority and power”
Lord is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “one who has authority and power.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “one who has authority and power.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
From Latin Dominus (“master of a house; lord”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lord through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 678
- 678 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 29 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #8,009 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- 0%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,009 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was virtually unchanged in 2021–2025 compared with 2016–2020. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 753 as a first name in 2020; 22,488 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.
Lord’s family of names
Lord has a related form in Lorde. Lord has a related form in Lordlea. Lord has a related form in Lordlee.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 10
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Lordevariant
- Lorrdlikely variant
- Lorddlikely variant
- Lordlievariant
- Lordlivariant
- Lordleighvariant
- Lordleavariant
- Lordleevariant
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People named Lord
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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