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Baby name
Lance
Boy
Origin of the name
Lance is a short form of Lancelot, the knight of the Round Table; it may also come from the Germanic Lanzo, linked to land.
Classic name
105,839births since 1880
1970sgeneration
No. 76rank at its peak, in 1970
Where babies named Lance are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Lance is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Lance is most common in Hawaii (4.3 times), South Dakota (2.6) and Montana (2.4), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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