Lorain
Lorain was last recorded in 2009, when 5 babies were given it; 1,237 Americans have been recorded with it between 1900 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lorain by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lorain?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,019, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
50 babies in 1919, the peak
Lorain peaked in 1919, when 50 babies were given it (35 girls, #1,307 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #19,019 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,648 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,164 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,728 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,027 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,583 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,094 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,991 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,466 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,570 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 18 | #2,995 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,786 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,725 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,150 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,578 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,821 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,190 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,366 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,880 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,811 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 24 | #2,255 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,248 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,336 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,127 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,879 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,161 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,583 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,899 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,590 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,687 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,400 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,962 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,968 | under 5 | |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,919 | under 5 | |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,152 | under 5 | |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,065 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,681 | 6 | #3,333 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,843 | under 5 | |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,073 | 5 | #3,832 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,782 | 5 | #3,856 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,510 | under 5 | |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,372 | under 5 | |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,226 | 11 | #2,307 |
| 1932 | 16 | #2,090 | 8 | #2,999 |
| 1931 | 24 | #1,574 | 5 | #4,103 |
| 1930 | 19 | #1,910 | under 5 | |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,059 | 6 | #3,792 |
| 1928 | 36 | #1,278 | 5 | #4,489 |
| 1927 | 31 | #1,472 | 6 | #4,009 |
| 1926 | 33 | #1,399 | 9 | #3,038 |
| 1925 | 29 | #1,556 | 9 | #3,048 |
| 1924 | 33 | #1,458 | 13 | #2,422 |
| 1923 | 18 | #2,129 | 8 | #3,337 |
| 1922 | 33 | #1,414 | 13 | #2,423 |
| 1921 | 34 | #1,391 | 12 | #2,574 |
| 1920 | 31 | #1,459 | 14 | #2,292 |
| 1919 | 35 | #1,307 | 15 | #2,109 |
| 1918 | 32 | #1,372 | 14 | #2,229 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,264 | 16 | #1,949 |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,083 | 10 | #2,658 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,321 | 10 | #2,552 |
| 1914 | under 5 | 8 | #2,561 | |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,449 | 5 | #3,082 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,675 | under 5 | |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,090 | under 5 | |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,296 | under 5 | |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,427 | under 5 | |
| 1907 | 12 | #1,182 | under 5 | |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,103 | under 5 | |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,823 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,094 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Lorain a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,237 Americans recorded as Lorain, 83% are girls and 17% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lorain: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lorain, and how old are they?
An estimated 350 Americans named Lorain and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (28% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 63 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 601 people named Lorain (566 women and girls, 35 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 442 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Lorain rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,061 babies since 1880, Lorain is the fifth most given (8.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 48 babies recorded by SSA was a Lorain (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 Lorain
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 Lorain and names like it
- Compare Lorain and LoriannBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sLorain peaked in 1919.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lorain since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Lorain.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lorain alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.