Lorain — unisex name

What the Data Says About Lorain

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,024 babies named Lorain between 1900 and 2009, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lorain currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1928, when 36 babies received it in a single year. Lorain is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 213 additional births since 1913.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lorain performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 295 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Lorain shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and Kentucky. In total, SSA state-level files list Lorain in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lorain in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,024 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.