Lorenzo
Lorenzo was given to 3,065 boys in 2025, #117 among boys’ names; 86,066 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 73,700 Americans named Lorenzo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 7 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lorenzo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lorenzo mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Lorenzo is “a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Laurence”
From Latin Laurentius, perhaps through Italian.
/loˈɾenθo/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lorenzo?
#117 among boys’ names, 2025
Lorenzo rose from #216 in 2015 to #117 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 1.0 to 1.8 per 1,000.
3,065 babies in 2025, the peak
Lorenzo peaked in 2025, when 3,065 boys were given it, #117 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 3,054 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,065 | #117 | 1.8 |
| 2024 | 3,054 | #116 | 1.8 |
| 2023 | 2,819 | #131 | 1.6 |
| 2022 | 2,836 | #134 | 1.6 |
| 2021 | 2,781 | #135 | 1.6 |
| 2020 | 2,456 | #152 | 1.4 |
| 2019 | 2,642 | #146 | 1.5 |
| 2018 | 2,252 | #173 | 1.2 |
| 2017 | 2,004 | #197 | 1.1 |
| 2016 | 1,877 | #210 | 1.0 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,845 | #216 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 1,642 | #227 | 0.85 |
| 2013 | 1,518 | #238 | 0.80 |
| 2012 | 1,090 | #307 | 0.57 |
| 2011 | 1,033 | #311 | 0.54 |
| 2010 | 965 | #324 | 0.50 |
| 2009 | 955 | #336 | 0.48 |
| 2008 | 987 | #334 | 0.48 |
| 2007 | 1,172 | #295 | 0.56 |
| 2006 | 1,111 | #300 | 0.54 |
| 2005 | 1,028 | #319 | 0.51 |
| 2004 | 1,076 | #295 | 0.54 |
| 2003 | 963 | #310 | 0.49 |
| 2002 | 987 | #297 | 0.51 |
| 2001 | 888 | #314 | 0.46 |
| 2000 | 922 | #314 | 0.47 |
| 1999 | 946 | #305 | 0.49 |
| 1998 | 956 | #294 | 0.50 |
| 1997 | 946 | #293 | 0.50 |
| 1996 | 1,020 | #274 | 0.54 |
| 1995 | 982 | #280 | 0.52 |
| 1994 | 929 | #295 | 0.48 |
| 1993 | 950 | #290 | 0.48 |
| 1992 | 762 | #333 | 0.38 |
| 1991 | 839 | #307 | 0.42 |
| 1990 | 827 | #309 | 0.40 |
| 1989 | 761 | #314 | 0.38 |
| 1988 | 751 | #304 | 0.39 |
| 1987 | 803 | #273 | 0.43 |
| 1986 | 715 | #292 | 0.39 |
| 1985 | 803 | #266 | 0.43 |
| 1984 | 744 | #279 | 0.41 |
| 1983 | 661 | #298 | 0.37 |
| 1982 | 627 | #315 | 0.35 |
| 1981 | 623 | #306 | 0.35 |
| 1980 | 584 | #325 | 0.33 |
| 1979 | 523 | #345 | 0.30 |
| 1978 | 529 | #331 | 0.32 |
| 1977 | 480 | #360 | 0.29 |
| 1976 | 552 | #321 | 0.35 |
| 1975 | 558 | #321 | 0.36 |
| 1974 | 568 | #317 | 0.36 |
| 1973 | 513 | #333 | 0.33 |
| 1972 | 522 | #338 | 0.32 |
| 1971 | 575 | #325 | 0.33 |
| 1970 | 561 | #339 | 0.30 |
| 1969 | 529 | #341 | 0.30 |
| 1968 | 511 | #341 | 0.29 |
| 1967 | 510 | #332 | 0.29 |
| 1966 | 606 | #301 | 0.34 |
| 1965 | 589 | #314 | 0.32 |
| 1964 | 657 | #306 | 0.33 |
| 1963 | 630 | #317 | 0.31 |
| 1962 | 599 | #320 | 0.29 |
| 1961 | 639 | #308 | 0.30 |
| 1960 | 653 | #307 | 0.31 |
| 1959 | 533 | #335 | 0.25 |
| 1958 | 521 | #338 | 0.25 |
| 1957 | 564 | #325 | 0.26 |
| 1956 | 560 | #314 | 0.26 |
| 1955 | 537 | #317 | 0.26 |
| 1954 | 525 | #312 | 0.26 |
| 1953 | 444 | #332 | 0.23 |
| 1952 | 447 | #328 | 0.23 |
| 1951 | 401 | #340 | 0.21 |
| 1950 | 379 | #346 | 0.21 |
| 1949 | 356 | #356 | 0.20 |
| 1948 | 345 | #365 | 0.20 |
| 1947 | 322 | #382 | 0.18 |
| 1946 | 289 | #385 | 0.18 |
| 1945 | 235 | #392 | 0.17 |
| 1944 | 277 | #360 | 0.20 |
| 1943 | 259 | #381 | 0.18 |
| 1942 | 245 | #389 | 0.18 |
| 1941 | 260 | #363 | 0.21 |
| 1940 | 206 | #400 | 0.18 |
| 1939 | 238 | #368 | 0.22 |
| 1938 | 238 | #361 | 0.21 |
| 1937 | 212 | #380 | 0.20 |
| 1936 | 192 | #396 | 0.19 |
| 1935 | 213 | #370 | 0.20 |
| 1934 | 224 | #365 | 0.22 |
| 1933 | 218 | #366 | 0.22 |
| 1932 | 198 | #402 | 0.19 |
| 1931 | 193 | #404 | 0.19 |
| 1930 | 211 | #399 | 0.19 |
| 1929 | 224 | #386 | 0.21 |
| 1928 | 224 | #401 | 0.20 |
| 1927 | 213 | #413 | 0.19 |
| 1926 | 230 | #387 | 0.21 |
| 1925 | 231 | #395 | 0.21 |
| 1924 | 217 | #416 | 0.19 |
| 1923 | 218 | #407 | 0.20 |
| 1922 | 210 | #414 | 0.19 |
| 1921 | 204 | #424 | 0.19 |
| 1920 | 190 | #437 | 0.18 |
| 1919 | 165 | #459 | 0.17 |
| 1918 | 168 | #458 | 0.17 |
| 1917 | 192 | #408 | 0.21 |
| 1916 | 176 | #425 | 0.20 |
| 1915 | 161 | #426 | 0.19 |
| 1914 | 133 | #412 | 0.20 |
| 1913 | 94 | #444 | 0.18 |
| 1912 | 95 | #394 | 0.22 |
| 1911 | 62 | #350 | 0.27 |
| 1910 | 46 | #387 | 0.24 |
| 1909 | 47 | #342 | 0.29 |
| 1908 | 48 | #322 | 0.31 |
| 1907 | 36 | #375 | 0.25 |
| 1906 | 47 | #299 | 0.35 |
| 1905 | 37 | #333 | 0.28 |
| 1904 | 29 | #383 | 0.23 |
| 1903 | 26 | #389 | 0.22 |
| 1902 | 27 | #385 | 0.22 |
| 1901 | 30 | #329 | 0.28 |
| 1900 | 42 | #333 | 0.28 |
| 1899 | 18 | #448 | 0.17 |
| 1898 | 40 | #292 | 0.33 |
| 1897 | 31 | #336 | 0.27 |
| 1896 | 35 | #319 | 0.29 |
| 1895 | 26 | #376 | 0.22 |
| 1894 | 25 | #374 | 0.22 |
| 1893 | 21 | #398 | 0.19 |
| 1892 | 29 | #352 | 0.24 |
| 1891 | 30 | #306 | 0.30 |
| 1890 | 24 | #367 | 0.22 |
| 1889 | 24 | #364 | 0.22 |
| 1888 | 36 | #300 | 0.30 |
| 1887 | 25 | #331 | 0.25 |
| 1886 | 25 | #343 | 0.23 |
| 1885 | 27 | #330 | 0.25 |
| 1884 | 30 | #321 | 0.26 |
| 1883 | 20 | #390 | 0.19 |
| 1882 | 41 | #270 | 0.36 |
| 1881 | 32 | #283 | 0.32 |
| 1880 | 48 | #240 | 0.43 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lorenzo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lorenzo has been given almost only to boys: 314 girls in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Lorenzo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lorenzo, and how old are they?
73,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 86,066 Americans ever recorded as Lorenzo. The median Lorenzo alive today is 20 years old; half are between 7 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 66,587 people named Lorenzo (186 women and girls, 66,401 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 59,460 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 830 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6,460 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7,790 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 12,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 15,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 30,600 |
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 Lorenzo born?
The states with the most babies named Lorenzo are California, Texas and New York, with 40% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 588 | #59 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 398 | #101 | 1.7× |
| New York | 239 | #71 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 233 | #92 | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 139 | #82 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 112 | #85 | 1.0× |
| Arizona | 94 | #90 | 1.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 94 | #137 | 0.5× |
| Massachusetts | 88 | #79 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 74 | #180 | 0.5× |
Where Lorenzo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lorenzo is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1910 it was given 4.1 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 Lorenzo 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 93,080 babies since 1880, Lorenzo is the most given (92% of them). In 2025 it was given to 3,065 of their 3,081 babies (99%), 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 Lorenzo
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 Lorenzo and names like it
- Compare Lorenzo and LorenzaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLorenzo peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lorenzo since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Lorenzo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Lorenzo.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lorenzo alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.