Loris — unisex name

What the Data Says About Loris

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,701 babies named Loris between 1903 and 2019, spanning 117 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Loris currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1935, when 64 babies received it in a single year. Loris is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 579 additional births since 1912.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Loris performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 387 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Loris shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 27 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Loris in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Loris 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 1,701 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.