Lorayne
Lorayne was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 1,157 Americans have been recorded with it between 1903 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lorayne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lorayne?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,727, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
64 babies in 1922, the peak
Lorayne peaked in 1922, when 64 girls were given it, #923 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #16,727 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,133 | 2.9 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,714 | 2.8 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,977 | 3.3 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,264 | 2.6 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,407 | 3.0 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,947 | 4.6 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,739 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,284 | 5.3 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,784 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 8 | #5,095 | 4.7 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,787 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,925 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,691 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,114 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,289 | 7.4 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,730 | 5.9 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,741 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,409 | 6.4 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,432 | 6.5 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,487 | 6.1 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,149 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,100 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,374 | 10.8 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,880 | 7.8 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,845 | 8.2 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,516 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,756 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,590 | 9.0 |
| 1946 | 17 | #2,357 | 10.8 |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,033 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,058 | 7.5 |
| 1943 | 18 | #2,116 | 12.9 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,612 | 9.6 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,421 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,503 | 10.5 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,682 | 10.0 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,701 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,854 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,784 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,607 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,510 | 11.5 |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,193 | 14.1 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,989 | 16.0 |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,727 | 19.5 |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,677 | 20.6 |
| 1928 | 31 | #1,411 | 26.9 |
| 1927 | 27 | #1,602 | 22.6 |
| 1926 | 32 | #1,431 | 27.0 |
| 1925 | 48 | #1,113 | 39.4 |
| 1924 | 55 | #1,055 | 44.0 |
| 1923 | 43 | #1,188 | 35.6 |
| 1922 | 64 | #923 | 53.3 |
| 1921 | 51 | #1,066 | 41.4 |
| 1920 | 60 | #946 | 50.1 |
| 1919 | 38 | #1,226 | 33.6 |
| 1918 | 45 | #1,093 | 38.9 |
| 1917 | 27 | #1,456 | 25.0 |
| 1916 | 37 | #1,181 | 35.4 |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,713 | 20.3 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,864 | 18.4 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,639 | 22.4 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,579 | 23.3 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,350 | 14.3 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,037 | 17.7 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,393 | 14.4 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,997 | 17.9 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,781 | 21.8 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,947 | 19.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lorayne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lorayne has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lorayne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lorayne, and how old are they?
An estimated 306 Americans named Lorayne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (26% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 63 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 529 people named Lorayne (525 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 383 born in the U.S. The Census count is 38% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Lorayne born?
The states with the most babies named Lorayne are Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin, with 86% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota and Wisconsin are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 119 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Minnesota | 91 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| Wisconsin | 55 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| California | 13 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 7 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Lorayne is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lorayne is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1910 it was given 1.9 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 Lorayne with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Lorayne?
Lorayne is a less common spelling of Lorraine: SSA has recorded 1,157 Lorayne and 210,845 Lorraine since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 281,347 babies since 1880, Lorayne is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 293 babies recorded by SSA was a Lorayne (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 Lorayne
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 Lorayne and names like it
- Compare Lorayne and LorraineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLorayne peaked in 1922.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lorayne since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Lorayne.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lorayne alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.