Lorien
Lorien is given to both girls and boys: 8 girls and 9 boys were given it in 2025 (#11,508 among girls’ names and #8,653 among boys’, #11,635 among all names counting both); 957 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lorien by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lorien?
#11,508 among girls’ names, 2025
Lorien fell from #9,887 in 2015 to #11,508 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 5.0 per million.
41 babies in 1979, the peak
Lorien peaked in 1979, when 41 girls were given it, #2,327 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 41% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,508 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,533 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,033 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,732 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,712 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,544 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,483 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,254 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,242 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,196 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,887 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,614 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,850 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,460 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,200 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,198 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,960 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,301 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,607 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,504 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,926 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,340 | 17.4 |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,842 | 19.7 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,570 | 15.0 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,174 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,400 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,067 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,409 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,542 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,786 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,124 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,823 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,316 | 6.5 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,131 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,770 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,500 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,107 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,467 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,368 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,631 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,890 | 12.0 |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,131 | 16.5 |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,952 | 18.0 |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,376 | 24.7 |
| 1979 | 41 | #2,327 | 25.5 |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,543 | 22.2 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,046 | 17.0 |
| 1976 | 25 | #2,970 | 17.1 |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,020 | 8.2 |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,652 | 19.1 |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,968 | 15.8 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,813 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,590 | 10.8 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,897 | 13.7 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,400 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,368 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,176 | 3.0 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,127 | 2.5 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,990 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lorien a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 957 Americans recorded as Lorien, 97% are girls and 3% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lorien: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lorien, and how old are they?
An estimated 921 Americans named Lorien and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 20 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 933 people named Lorien (868 women and girls, 65 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 861 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,874 babies since 1880, Lorien is the sixth most given (6.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 48 babies (35%), the most given that year.
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 Lorien
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 Lorien and names like it
- Compare Lorien and LoriannBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLorien peaked in 1979.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lorien since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Lorien.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lorien alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.