Loran — boys' name

What the Data Says About Loran

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,714 babies named Loran between 1880 and 2023, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Loran currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1943, when 79 babies received it in a single year. Loran is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 817 additional births since 1950.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Loran performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 609 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Loran shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 123 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Iowa. In total, SSA state-level files list Loran in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Loran 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 3,714 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.