Larraine
Larraine was last recorded in 1989, when 5 babies were given it; 1,258 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Larraine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Larraine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,531, in 1989; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
66 babies in 1947, the peak
Larraine peaked in 1947, when 66 girls were given it, #1,098 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 5 | #13,531 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,906 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,011 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,320 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,756 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,519 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,613 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,979 | 4.6 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,834 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,383 | 5.5 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 9 | #5,701 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,966 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,704 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,586 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,895 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,214 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,461 | 8.3 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,645 | 7.4 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,502 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,718 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 23 | #2,572 | 11.7 |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,641 | 10.9 |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,946 | 8.9 |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,486 | 10.9 |
| 1958 | 29 | #2,093 | 14.4 |
| 1957 | 31 | #1,972 | 15.2 |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,296 | 12.0 |
| 1955 | 36 | #1,753 | 18.4 |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,857 | 16.5 |
| 1953 | 38 | #1,598 | 20.2 |
| 1952 | 36 | #1,623 | 19.4 |
| 1951 | 34 | #1,647 | 18.9 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,298 | 11.1 |
| 1949 | 46 | #1,359 | 26.9 |
| 1948 | 53 | #1,260 | 31.2 |
| 1947 | 66 | #1,098 | 37.2 |
| 1946 | 44 | #1,312 | 28.0 |
| 1945 | 53 | #1,087 | 40.5 |
| 1944 | 35 | #1,375 | 26.4 |
| 1943 | 33 | #1,452 | 23.7 |
| 1942 | 30 | #1,515 | 22.2 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,848 | 16.6 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,930 | 15.7 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,502 | 10.9 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,092 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,049 | 15.0 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,451 | 11.5 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,594 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 16 | #2,043 | 15.3 |
| 1933 | 25 | #1,495 | 24.8 |
| 1932 | 16 | #2,082 | 15.0 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,365 | 12.2 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,779 | 9.8 |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,671 | 20.6 |
| 1928 | 32 | #1,380 | 27.7 |
| 1927 | 19 | #2,071 | 15.9 |
| 1926 | 18 | #2,121 | 15.2 |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,917 | 17.3 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,260 | 13.6 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,243 | 8.3 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,878 | 10.0 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,242 | 5.7 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,668 | 10.8 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,905 | 9.7 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,677 | 6.9 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,025 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Larraine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Larraine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Larraine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Larraine, and how old are they?
An estimated 708 Americans named Larraine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (56% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 65 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 889 people named Larraine (888 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 831 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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 Larraine born?
The states with the most babies named Larraine are New York, Pennsylvania and California, with 87% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 112 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 39 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| California | 31 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Minnesota | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Larraine 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 8,675 babies since 1880, Larraine is the third most given (15% of them).
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 Larraine
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 Larraine and names like it
- Compare Larraine and LaraineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sLarraine peaked in 1947.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Larraine since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Larraine.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Larraine alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.