Lance Forename
6,264th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 167,855 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Norfolk Island
Lance Forename Definition:
The diminutive of, and now often a substitute for Lancelot.
Lance Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 100% | 126,086 | 1:2,875 | 503 |
| Canada | 100% | 8,256 | 1:4,013 | 673 |
| Australia | - | 6,462 | 1:2,114 | 392 |
| South Africa | 100% | 6,373 | 1:8,557 | 1,506 |
| England | 100% | 5,957 | 1:9,334 | 758 |
| New Zealand | - | 4,312 | 1:1,052 | 247 |
| Philippines | 97% | 2,010 | 1:52,741 | 3,787 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 699 | 1:44,081 | 5,366 |
| China | - | 639 | 1:2,137,802 | 43,650 |
| Jamaica | - | 527 | 1:5,471 | 835 |
| Wales | 100% | 426 | 1:7,264 | 702 |
| Ghana | 100% | 393 | 1:68,667 | 3,308 |
| Samoa | - | 320 | 1:610 | 177 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 286 | 1:72,724 | 6,418 |
| Papua New Guinea | 95% | 262 | 1:31,116 | 3,108 |
| Egypt | 100% | 260 | 1:353,465 | 10,818 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 242 | 1:1,065,966 | 64,983 |
| Thailand | 100% | 212 | 1:330,499 | 18,004 |
| Poland | 100% | 188 | 1:202,272 | 3,614 |
| Zimbabwe | 95% | 188 | 1:82,042 | 6,264 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 179 | 1:7,606 | 1,206 |
| Scotland | 100% | 178 | 1:30,058 | 1,210 |
| Kenya | - | 175 | 1:264,612 | 9,723 |
| Singapore | 100% | 154 | 1:40,825 | 6,576 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 153 | 1:1,162 | 186 |
| Zambia | - | 143 | 1:110,873 | 4,990 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 141 | 1:50,723 | 4,577 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 119 | 1:142,034 | 6,271 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 111 | 1:93,975 | 4,991 |
| India | 100% | 111 | 1:10,944,847 | 319,101 |
| DR Congo | 88% | 110 | 1:671,160 | 22,021 |
| Malawi | 100% | 106 | 1:161,437 | 7,641 |
| Malaysia | 88% | 98 | 1:310,714 | 15,711 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 93 | 1:1,909,294 | 38,913 |
| Bahrain | - | 89 | 1:15,154 | 2,209 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 85 | 1:621,039 | 16,056 |
| Germany | 100% | 81 | 1:1,193,554 | 8,647 |
| Brazil | 100% | 76 | 1:2,818,897 | 53,172 |
| Liberia | 100% | 68 | 1:64,883 | 3,184 |
| Botswana | 100% | 63 | 1:34,674 | 3,690 |
| Guinea | - | 63 | 1:188,232 | 2,515 |
| Japan | - | 57 | 1:2,245,369 | 20,551 |
| Kuwait | - | 57 | 1:66,408 | 5,422 |
| Bahamas | - | 51 | 1:7,831 | 1,045 |
| Guyana | 100% | 51 | 1:14,966 | 2,018 |
| Hong Kong | - | 51 | 1:152,014 | 3,072 |
| France | 100% | 48 | 1:1,384,799 | 9,425 |
| Barbados | - | 47 | 1:6,166 | 845 |
| Iraq | 100% | 43 | 1:814,369 | 7,317 |
| Guam | - | 42 | 1:3,825 | 732 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 38 | 1:625,518 | 31,167 |
| Ireland | 94% | 36 | 1:128,987 | 2,887 |
| Guernsey | 100% | 36 | 1:1,759 | 303 |
| Qatar | 100% | 33 | 1:71,806 | 8,890 |
| Sweden | 96% | 33 | 1:298,724 | 9,079 |
| Russia | 100% | 29 | 1:4,973,576 | 24,318 |
| South Korea | - | 29 | 1:191,187 | 7,453 |
| Switzerland | 95% | 27 | 1:304,204 | 5,947 |
| Norway | 100% | 26 | 1:197,397 | 4,991 |
| Senegal | 75% | 24 | 1:607,556 | 7,223 |
| American Samoa | - | 20 | 1:2,792 | 500 |
| Chile | 63% | 20 | 1:880,360 | 8,450 |
| Spain | - | 19 | 1:2,448,946 | 12,647 |
| Uganda | 92% | 19 | 1:2,155,627 | 27,415 |
| Israel | 86% | 18 | 1:466,829 | 9,497 |
| Mexico | 100% | 18 | 1:6,896,913 | 24,317 |
| Panama | 100% | 17 | 1:229,797 | 8,406 |
| Italy | 100% | 16 | 1:3,816,381 | 20,790 |
| Laos | - | 16 | 1:411,678 | 310 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 15 | 1:6,626 | 1,171 |
| Belgium | 100% | 15 | 1:766,003 | 10,349 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 14 | 1:1,648,281 | 41,086 |
| Denmark | - | 13 | 1:434,577 | 7,147 |
| Honduras | 100% | 13 | 1:678,267 | 8,995 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 13 | 1:8,442 | 1,163 |
| Afghanistan | 100% | 12 | 1:2,718,626 | 20,989 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 12 | 1:9,298 | 1,351 |
| Northern Ireland | - | 11 | 1:167,559 | 1,705 |
| Belize | 100% | 11 | 1:32,210 | 2,977 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 11 | 1:2,841 | 595 |
| Jersey | - | 11 | 1:9,089 | 812 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 10 | 1:6,130 | 975 |
| Namibia | - | 10 | 1:240,418 | 5,231 |
| Vietnam | - | 10 | 1:9,262,311 | 4,040 |
| Angola | - | 9 | 1:2,996,290 | 3,522 |
| Bangladesh | - | 9 | 1:17,717,930 | 19,122 |
| Bermuda | - | 9 | 1:7,203 | 999 |
| Gabon | - | 9 | 1:209,260 | 2,118 |
| Gibraltar | - | 9 | 1:3,793 | 625 |
| Sudan | - | 9 | 1:4,200,775 | 4,893 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 7 | 1:681,135 | 8,843 |
| Ecuador | - | 7 | 1:2,532,417 | 12,755 |
| Grenada | 100% | 7 | 1:15,446 | 1,649 |
| Hungary | 100% | 7 | 1:1,398,824 | 3,444 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 7 | 1:803,939 | 7,854 |
| Macau | - | 7 | 1:86,887 | 752 |
| Oman | - | 7 | 1:586,952 | 5,255 |
| Argentina | 80% | 6 | 1:7,128,874 | 15,663 |
| Finland | 55% | 6 | 1:913,864 | 8,662 |
| Brunei | 100% | 5 | 1:83,914 | 1,339 |
| Cook Islands | - | 5 | 1:3,631 | 547 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 5 | 1:6,040,379 | 77,223 |
| Burkina Faso | 50% | 4 | 1:4,594,867 | 56,462 |
| Cambodia | - | 4 | 1:4,068,332 | 35,322 |
| Fiji | - | 4 | 1:223,094 | 2,508 |
| Iceland | - | 4 | 1:91,504 | 3,703 |
| Morocco | - | 4 | 1:8,587,159 | 11,086 |
| Mozambique | - | 4 | 1:6,810,839 | 3,114 |
| Norfolk Island | - | 4 | 1:581 | 152 |
| Portugal | - | 4 | 1:2,602,716 | 8,189 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 4 | 1:13,715 | 1,549 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 4 | 1:1,772,166 | 913 |
| Suriname | - | 4 | 1:138,203 | 2,927 |
| Swaziland | - | 4 | 1:325,044 | 2,285 |
| Tunisia | - | 4 | 1:169,226 | 7,289 |
| Algeria | - | 3 | 1:12,725,573 | 18,455 |
| Austria | 100% | 3 | 1:2,838,067 | 11,255 |
| Belarus | 100% | 3 | 1:3,160,795 | 12,102 |
| Czechia | 100% | 3 | 1:3,552,054 | 6,491 |
| Georgia | - | 3 | 1:1,246,155 | 15,822 |
| Solomon Islands | - | 3 | 1:193,652 | 6,393 |
| Anguilla | - | 2 | 1:6,628 | 945 |
| Cyprus | - | 2 | 1:435,538 | 3,859 |
| Haiti | - | 2 | 1:5,363,476 | 32,317 |
| Kyrgyzstan | - | 2 | 1:2,986,638 | 34,954 |
| Micronesia | - | 2 | 1:53,250 | 1,276 |
| Nauru | 100% | 2 | 1:5,964 | 459 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 2 | 1:3,009,168 | 24,322 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 2 | 1:97,178,840 | 228,758 |
| Paraguay | 50% | 2 | 1:3,618,402 | 11,946 |
| Turkey | - | 2 | 1:38,900,854 | 64,839 |
| Ukraine | - | 2 | 1:22,749,954 | 22,291 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Aruba | - | 1 | 1:103,780 | 2,838 |
| Bolivia | - | 1 | 1:10,601,404 | 9,299 |
| Bulgaria | - | 1 | 1:6,990,390 | 27,036 |
| Cameroon | - | 1 | 1:21,610,503 | 119,836 |
| Central African Republic | - | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,073 |
| Colombia | - | 1 | 1:47,778,926 | 95,497 |
| Cuba | - | 1 | 1:11,506,552 | 13,531 |
| Curaçao | - | 1 | 1:155,803 | 1,239 |
| East Timor | - | 1 | 1:1,218,375 | 811 |
| Ethiopia | - | 1 | 1:97,560,133 | 29,608 |
| Greece | - | 1 | 1:10,934,548 | 22,228 |
| Guatemala | - | 1 | 1:16,108,429 | 13,998 |
| Isle of Man | - | 1 | 1:85,023 | 723 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 1 | 1:17,746,845 | 44,366 |
| Kosovo | - | 1 | 1:1,861,440 | 22,170 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 1 | 1:37,856 | 1,091 |
| Lithuania | - | 1 | 1:2,951,882 | 5,377 |
| Luxembourg | - | 1 | 1:564,049 | 5,042 |
| Madagascar | - | 1 | 1:23,629,408 | 6,628 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 1 | 1:51,230 | 5,014 |
| Mauritania | - | 1 | 1:4,095,239 | 27,701 |
| Mauritius | - | 1 | 1:1,297,784 | 13,721 |
| Moldova | - | 1 | 1:3,561,139 | 8,690 |
| Nepal | - | 1 | 1:28,487,352 | 119,417 |
| Niger | - | 1 | 1:19,183,994 | 77,442 |
| Northern Cyprus | - | 1 | 1:318,133 | 3,044 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 1 | 1:54,668 | 1,803 |
| Peru | 100% | 1 | 1:31,791,454 | 110,866 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1 | 1:3,550,301 | 10,040 |
| Romania | - | 1 | 1:20,051,976 | 55,376 |
| Rwanda | - | 1 | 1:11,371,433 | 4,615 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 1 | 1:191,997 | 5,295 |
| Seychelles | - | 1 | 1:92,670 | 1,891 |
| Slovenia | - | 1 | 1:2,458,758 | 6,723 |
| Uzbekistan | - | 1 | 1:30,786,440 | 17,476 |
| Yemen | - | 1 | 1:26,296,751 | 14,474 |
The alternate forms: Lanče (6) & Lancé (2) are calculated separately.
Lance (23,870) may also be a surname.
Lance Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
The diminutive of, and now often a substitute for Lancelot.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
Abbreviated from Lancelot.
— Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock
Lance Forename Popularity
Lance Demographics
Lance Political Affiliation
in United States
Sample size: 21,907 (2014)
United States
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