Laraine
Laraine was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 3,478 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,230 Americans named Laraine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (64% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 64 and 80.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laraine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Laraine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,469, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
268 babies in 1947, the peak
Laraine peaked in 1947, when 268 girls were given it, #504 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,469 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,008 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,917 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,788 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,827 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,033 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,018 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,579 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,229 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,297 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 6 | #14,156 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,042 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,000 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,346 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,962 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,761 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,833 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,324 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,387 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,277 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,616 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,786 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,076 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,433 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,389 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,590 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,768 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,542 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,767 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,203 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,564 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,068 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,801 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,691 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,256 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,548 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,586 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,739 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 26 | #2,379 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 38 | #1,876 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 35 | #2,032 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 30 | #2,188 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 50 | #1,600 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 46 | #1,685 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 41 | #1,775 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 61 | #1,375 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 62 | #1,343 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 68 | #1,282 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 92 | #1,070 | 0.05 |
| 1955 | 98 | #1,014 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 85 | #1,068 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 92 | #1,003 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 119 | #842 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 104 | #886 | 0.06 |
| 1950 | 82 | #1,011 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 106 | #855 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 159 | #662 | 0.09 |
| 1947 | 268 | #504 | 0.15 |
| 1946 | 149 | #647 | 0.09 |
| 1945 | 232 | #472 | 0.18 |
| 1944 | 157 | #587 | 0.12 |
| 1943 | 163 | #590 | 0.12 |
| 1942 | 97 | #770 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 131 | #618 | 0.11 |
| 1940 | 72 | #843 | 0.06 |
| 1939 | 26 | #1,496 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,508 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,642 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,254 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,502 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 16 | #2,042 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,806 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,724 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,779 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,253 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 24 | #1,620 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 25 | #1,654 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,177 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 19 | #2,037 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,670 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,957 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 18 | #2,126 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,343 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,895 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,410 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,392 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,525 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,621 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,675 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Laraine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laraine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 89 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Laraine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laraine, and how old are they?
2,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 64% of the 3,478 Americans ever recorded as Laraine. The median Laraine alive today is 74 years old; half are between 64 and 80.
The 2020 Census counted 2,730 people named Laraine (2,730 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,541 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 480 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,290 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 254 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 134 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 39 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 41 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Laraine born?
The states with the most babies named Laraine are New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with 63% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 716 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 229 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 214 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| California | 203 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 130 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Massachusetts | 108 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Utah | 83 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| Michigan | 61 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 26 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Connecticut | 22 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Laraine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Laraine is most over-represented in New York: since 1913 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Laraine with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,482 babies since 1880, Laraine is the most given (33% of them). In 2025 none of their 21 babies recorded by SSA was a Laraine (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Laraine
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Laraine and names like it
- Compare Laraine and LaurineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sLaraine peaked in 1947.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laraine since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Laraine.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Laraine alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.