Lorne

Girls 1% Boys 99% Recorded 1903-2025

Lorne was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,151 among boys’ names; 4,352 Americans have been recorded with it since 1903 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).

An estimated 3,050 Americans named Lorne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (70% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 43 and 62.

Babies named Lorne each year, first recorded in 1903

Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).

Lorne or Pernell Names of the 1960s Names in California

Births of Lorne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

What does Lorne mean?

Wiktionary, English section

Lorne is “a male given name.”

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, entry Lorne (English), CC BY‑SA 4.0. Quoted from the entry; text after a cross-reference to another sense is left out.

Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).

How popular is Lorne?

#13,151 among boys’ names, 2025

Lorne fell from #5,426 in 2015 to #13,151 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.9 to 2.9 per million.

188 babies in 1965, the peak

Lorne peaked in 1965, when 188 babies were given it (182 boys, #568 among boys’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.

Girls and boys named Lorne each year

Births by sex.

Lorne by year
Year	Births	Rank	Per 1,000 boys
2025	5	#13,151	under 0.01
2024	6	#11,803	under 0.01
2023	7	#10,353	under 0.01
2022	6	#11,734	under 0.01
2021	8	#9,351	under 0.01
2020	6	#11,439	under 0.01
2019	7	#10,396	under 0.01
2018	11	#7,424	0.01
2017	10	#7,917	0.01
2016	6	#11,601	under 0.01

Every recorded year (119)

Year	Births	Rank	Per 1,000 boys
2015	17	#5,426	0.01
2014	11	#7,348	0.01
2013	8	#9,329	under 0.01
2012	8	#9,376	under 0.01
2011	9	#8,505	under 0.01
2010	7	#10,328	under 0.01
2009	10	#8,064	0.01
2008	14	#6,275	0.01
2007	8	#9,408	under 0.01
2006	17	#5,215	0.01
2005	6	#10,943	under 0.01
2004	11	#6,804	0.01
2003	10	#7,036	0.01
2002	18	#4,420	0.01
2001	21	#3,919	0.01
2000	19	#4,144	0.01
1999	16	#4,465	0.01
1998	21	#3,558	0.01
1997	11	#5,508	0.01
1996	19	#3,622	0.01
1995	17	#3,780	0.01
1994	38	#2,148	0.02
1993	25	#2,830	0.01
1992	35	#2,196	0.02
1991	34	#2,171	0.02
1990	42	#1,855	0.02
1989	32	#2,177	0.02
1988	36	#1,864	0.02
1987	47	#1,518	0.03
1986	42	#1,576	0.02
1985	53	#1,324	0.03
1984	48	#1,376	0.03
1983	61	#1,162	0.03
1982	43	#1,473	0.02
1981	55	#1,243	0.03
1980	56	#1,233	0.03
1979	49	#1,333	0.03
1978	45	#1,382	0.03
1977	30	#1,765	0.02
1976	53	#1,184	0.03
1975	49	#1,221	0.03
1974	66	#1,013	0.04
1973	65	#1,004	0.04
1972	95	#824	0.06
1971	92	#852	0.05
1970	116	#768	0.06
1969	131	#692	0.07
1968	147	#624	0.08
1967	145	#625	0.08
1966	186	#560	0.10
1965	182	#568	0.10
1964	179	#590	0.09
1963	159	#619	0.08
1962	171	#594	0.08
1961	92	#794	0.04
1960	49	#1,126	0.02
1959	24	#1,647	0.01
1958	26	#1,547	0.01
1957	25	#1,613	0.01
1956	27	#1,523	0.01
1955	30	#1,409	0.01
1954	28	#1,452	0.01
1953	13	#2,245	0.01
1952	22	#1,646	0.01
1951	27	#1,441	0.01
1950	21	#1,638	0.01
1949	29	#1,368	0.02
1948	29	#1,368	0.02
1947	27	#1,436	0.01
1946	20	#1,624	0.01
1945	11	#2,201	0.01
1944	22	#1,463	0.02
1943	30	#1,272	0.02
1942	22	#1,516	0.02
1941	20	#1,565	0.02
1940	25	#1,351	0.02
1939	28	#1,258	0.03
1938	18	#1,660	0.02
1937	27	#1,299	0.03
1936	26	#1,308	0.03
1935	25	#1,385	0.02
1934	27	#1,307	0.03
1933	21	#1,524	0.02
1932	28	#1,313	0.03
1931	18	#1,748	0.02
1930	31	#1,293	0.03
1929	22	#1,590	0.02
1928	28	#1,404	0.03
1927	35	#1,238	0.03
1926	38	#1,169	0.03
1925	33	#1,272	0.03
1924	27	#1,475	0.02
1923	25	#1,529	0.02
1922	21	#1,735	0.02
1921	37	#1,188	0.03
1920	23	#1,624	0.02
1919	23	#1,561	0.02
1918	29	#1,328	0.03
1917	23	#1,512	0.02
1916	22	#1,531	0.02
1915	19	#1,637	0.02
1914	21	#1,326	0.03
1913	6	#2,672	0.01
1912	11	#1,583	0.03
1911	7	#1,480	0.03
1910	7	#1,372	0.04
1908	7	#1,172	0.05
1907	8	#1,060	0.05
1903	5	#1,228	0.04

Download Lorne’s births by year (CSV)

Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.

Is Lorne a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Of the 4,352 Americans recorded as Lorne, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).

Share of girls among babies named Lorne, by year

Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.

Girls and boys named Lorne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.

How many people are named Lorne, and how old are they?

3,050 alive in 2026, estimated

That is 70% of the 4,352 Americans ever recorded as Lorne. The median Lorne alive today is 56 years old; half are between 43 and 62.

The 2020 Census counted 3,310 people named Lorne (131 women and girls, 3,179 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,226 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.

Alive today, by age

100-1091

90-9917

80-8971

70-79152

60-69866

50-59 (median)836

40-49448

30-39311

20-29147

10-1997

0-966

Alive today, by generation

By generation
Generation	Born	Alive
Silent Generation	1928-1945	79
Baby Boomers	1946-1964	738
Generation X	1965-1980	1,310
Millennials	1981-1996	603
Generation Z	1997-2012	202
Generation Alpha	2013-2025	107

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 Lorne born?

The states with the most babies named Lorne are California, Michigan and New York, with 54% of its births recorded by state since 1910.

States with the most births: girls and boys together; rank among boys’ names in the state in 2025
State	Since 1910	Rank, boys	vs. national
California	342	not ranked	0.9×
Michigan	271	not ranked	1.5×
New York	176	not ranked	0.5×
Illinois	112	not ranked	0.5×
Pennsylvania	96	not ranked	0.4×
Texas	81	not ranked	0.3×
Louisiana	47	not ranked	0.5×
Ohio	47	not ranked	0.2×
Florida	30	not ranked	0.2×
Massachusetts	29	not ranked	0.2×

Where Lorne is more common than its national share predicts

Relative to its national share, Lorne is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1910 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.

Michigan1.49×

Bars start at 1× (as often as the national share predicts).

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 Lorne with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.

Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lorne

Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.

Name	Recorded	1900-2025
Pernell	3,312

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 Lorne and names like it

Compare Lorne and PernellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
The most given names of the 1960sLorne peaked in 1965.
California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lorne since 1910.
The top names of 1965The year the most babies were named Lorne.
The names of Generation XMost people named Lorne alive today were born 1965-1980.
Names starting with LMost given first.

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