Loren
Loren is given to both girls and boys: 55 girls and 40 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,015 among girls’ names and #3,061 among boys’, #3,674 among all names counting both); 59,320 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Loren every year since 1988.
An estimated 36,000 Americans named Loren and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (61% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 33 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Loren by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Loren mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Loren is “a male given name from German Lorenz, Spanish Lorenzo, or Italian Lorenzo, equivalent to English Laurence, all in turn derived from Latin Laurentius (“Lawrence”).”
Also “a female given name from Latin, of rare usage, variant of Lauren.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Loren?
#3,061 among boys’ names, 2025
Loren fell from #2,009 in 2015 to #3,061 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 37.6 to 23.4 per million.
824 babies in 1964, the peak
Loren peaked in 1964, when 824 babies were given it (708 boys, #296 among boys’ names). The 95 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 12% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55 | #3,015 | 40 | #3,061 |
| 2024 | 73 | #2,477 | 50 | #2,652 |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,544 | 57 | #2,405 |
| 2022 | 75 | #2,440 | 60 | #2,366 |
| 2021 | 84 | #2,223 | 58 | #2,362 |
| 2020 | 89 | #2,075 | 57 | #2,357 |
| 2019 | 95 | #2,025 | 56 | #2,407 |
| 2018 | 103 | #1,934 | 73 | #2,008 |
| 2017 | 109 | #1,872 | 52 | #2,472 |
| 2016 | 114 | #1,825 | 75 | #1,950 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 108 | #1,890 | 72 | #2,009 |
| 2014 | 96 | #2,043 | 77 | #1,896 |
| 2013 | 103 | #1,934 | 53 | #2,384 |
| 2012 | 116 | #1,775 | 74 | #1,930 |
| 2011 | 115 | #1,776 | 81 | #1,788 |
| 2010 | 109 | #1,869 | 70 | #1,981 |
| 2009 | 140 | #1,606 | 63 | #2,154 |
| 2008 | 161 | #1,467 | 67 | #2,081 |
| 2007 | 187 | #1,306 | 90 | #1,692 |
| 2006 | 192 | #1,254 | 94 | #1,570 |
| 2005 | 203 | #1,147 | 112 | #1,348 |
| 2004 | 216 | #1,070 | 107 | #1,359 |
| 2003 | 239 | #971 | 100 | #1,357 |
| 2002 | 224 | #984 | 126 | #1,135 |
| 2001 | 279 | #830 | 119 | #1,164 |
| 2000 | 334 | #701 | 138 | #1,042 |
| 1999 | 323 | #700 | 124 | #1,083 |
| 1998 | 314 | #706 | 142 | #973 |
| 1997 | 334 | #658 | 167 | #847 |
| 1996 | 311 | #696 | 152 | #889 |
| 1995 | 262 | #769 | 183 | #792 |
| 1994 | 347 | #632 | 221 | #700 |
| 1993 | 362 | #625 | 225 | #688 |
| 1992 | 405 | #577 | 255 | #644 |
| 1991 | 399 | #580 | 289 | #598 |
| 1990 | 463 | #516 | 261 | #628 |
| 1989 | 397 | #563 | 289 | #571 |
| 1988 | 325 | #614 | 301 | #527 |
| 1987 | 250 | #722 | 334 | #484 |
| 1986 | 311 | #614 | 366 | #457 |
| 1985 | 298 | #629 | 375 | #440 |
| 1984 | 294 | #609 | 390 | #418 |
| 1983 | 244 | #700 | 420 | #397 |
| 1982 | 195 | #813 | 385 | #426 |
| 1981 | 181 | #860 | 380 | #430 |
| 1980 | 159 | #941 | 392 | #415 |
| 1979 | 128 | #1,078 | 379 | #406 |
| 1978 | 107 | #1,179 | 362 | #407 |
| 1977 | 91 | #1,290 | 340 | #429 |
| 1976 | 97 | #1,177 | 371 | #403 |
| 1975 | 93 | #1,236 | 341 | #422 |
| 1974 | 96 | #1,173 | 357 | #414 |
| 1973 | 71 | #1,394 | 393 | #390 |
| 1972 | 79 | #1,300 | 433 | #378 |
| 1971 | 87 | #1,273 | 470 | #374 |
| 1970 | 102 | #1,142 | 564 | #338 |
| 1969 | 125 | #957 | 614 | #305 |
| 1968 | 111 | #996 | 570 | #318 |
| 1967 | 113 | #964 | 566 | #311 |
| 1966 | 127 | #894 | 619 | #299 |
| 1965 | 113 | #972 | 656 | #294 |
| 1964 | 116 | #994 | 708 | #296 |
| 1963 | 83 | #1,206 | 693 | #295 |
| 1962 | 115 | #1,005 | 627 | #315 |
| 1961 | 84 | #1,207 | 643 | #306 |
| 1960 | 95 | #1,108 | 657 | #303 |
| 1959 | 107 | #1,027 | 612 | #313 |
| 1958 | 99 | #1,054 | 632 | #300 |
| 1957 | 104 | #1,028 | 651 | #294 |
| 1956 | 85 | #1,124 | 646 | #292 |
| 1955 | 70 | #1,201 | 716 | #260 |
| 1954 | 42 | #1,571 | 688 | #269 |
| 1953 | 43 | #1,498 | 691 | #263 |
| 1952 | 36 | #1,626 | 673 | #264 |
| 1951 | 28 | #1,860 | 667 | #258 |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,162 | 641 | #257 |
| 1949 | 20 | #2,249 | 651 | #253 |
| 1948 | 19 | #2,293 | 667 | #249 |
| 1947 | 25 | #1,973 | 694 | #250 |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,950 | 652 | #237 |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,963 | 623 | #219 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,059 | 613 | #225 |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,397 | 677 | #214 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,394 | 673 | #218 |
| 1941 | under 5 | 562 | #228 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 586 | #214 | |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,300 | 625 | #200 |
| 1938 | under 5 | 575 | #215 | |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,633 | 486 | #239 |
| 1936 | under 5 | 545 | #214 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 573 | #210 | |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,096 | 570 | #213 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,278 | 549 | #212 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,192 | 538 | #224 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,503 | 576 | #216 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,945 | 536 | #236 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,271 | 553 | #229 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,334 | 612 | #215 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,266 | 607 | #222 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,973 | 608 | #223 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,252 | 637 | #216 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,544 | 636 | #211 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,833 | 579 | #228 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,260 | 557 | #238 |
| 1921 | under 5 | 491 | #256 | |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,217 | 530 | #237 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,352 | 479 | #241 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,596 | 524 | #228 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,241 | 424 | #245 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,582 | 434 | #243 |
| 1915 | under 5 | 392 | #245 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 273 | #263 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 223 | #255 | |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,227 | 201 | #249 |
| 1911 | under 5 | 77 | #306 | |
| 1910 | under 5 | 66 | #302 | |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,109 | 66 | #280 |
| 1908 | under 5 | 46 | #333 | |
| 1907 | under 5 | 45 | #319 | |
| 1906 | under 5 | 47 | #298 | |
| 1905 | under 5 | 47 | #292 | |
| 1904 | under 5 | 37 | #331 | |
| 1903 | under 5 | 38 | #308 | |
| 1902 | under 5 | 33 | #345 | |
| 1901 | under 5 | 44 | #261 | |
| 1900 | under 5 | 44 | #322 | |
| 1899 | under 5 | 30 | #328 | |
| 1898 | under 5 | 19 | #479 | |
| 1897 | under 5 | 36 | #310 | |
| 1896 | under 5 | 32 | #334 | |
| 1895 | under 5 | 30 | #339 | |
| 1894 | under 5 | 30 | #326 | |
| 1893 | under 5 | 20 | #413 | |
| 1892 | under 5 | 29 | #351 | |
| 1891 | under 5 | 24 | #355 | |
| 1890 | under 5 | 26 | #345 | |
| 1889 | under 5 | 22 | #387 | |
| 1888 | under 5 | 23 | #393 | |
| 1887 | under 5 | 23 | #346 | |
| 1886 | under 5 | 22 | #375 | |
| 1885 | under 5 | 20 | #405 | |
| 1884 | under 5 | 19 | #423 | |
| 1883 | under 5 | 22 | #365 | |
| 1882 | under 5 | 35 | #291 | |
| 1881 | under 5 | 22 | #358 | |
| 1880 | under 5 | 22 | #369 |
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 Loren a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 59,320 Americans recorded as Loren, 22% are girls and 78% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Loren: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Loren, and how old are they?
36,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 61% of the 59,320 Americans ever recorded as Loren. The median Loren alive today is 49 years old; half are between 33 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 38,871 people named Loren (12,196 women and girls, 26,675 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 38,706 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2,130 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9,300 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 8,080 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 9,480 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,090 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,940 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Loren born?
The states with the most babies named Loren are California, Illinois and Minnesota, with 25% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5,763 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 3,740 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Minnesota | 3,181 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| New York | 2,941 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 2,467 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 2,399 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Iowa | 2,369 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Indiana | 2,197 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Texas | 2,096 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Kansas | 2,078 | not ranked | 2.9× |
Where Loren is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Loren is most over-represented in South Dakota: since 1910 it was given 3.4 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 boys’ 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 Loren 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 72,136 babies since 1880, Loren is the most given (82% of them). In 2025 it was given to 95 of their 105 babies (90%), again the most given.
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 Loren
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 Loren and names like it
- Compare Loren and LorinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLoren peaked in 1964.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Loren since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Loren: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Loren.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Loren alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.