Lorrain
Lorrain was last recorded in 1990, when 5 babies were given it; 646 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lorrain by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lorrain?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,268, in 1990; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1921, the peak
Lorrain peaked in 1921, when 22 girls were given it, #1,897 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 5 | #14,268 | 2.6 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,705 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,781 | 4.1 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,371 | 3.0 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,351 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,633 | 5.9 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,407 | 5.5 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,801 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,101 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,675 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 5 | #7,389 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,352 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,107 | 9.6 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,825 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,824 | 10.4 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,531 | 7.1 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,907 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,160 | 7.9 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,733 | 5.9 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,655 | 6.0 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,592 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,680 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,004 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,252 | 6.7 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,031 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,051 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,630 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,725 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,092 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,435 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,499 | 9.6 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,845 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,554 | 6.1 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,027 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,958 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,802 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,704 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,683 | 10.0 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,076 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,652 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,617 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,609 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,016 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,177 | 8.4 |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,163 | 14.1 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,969 | 8.9 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,512 | 11.6 |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,149 | 14.7 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,392 | 12.6 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,529 | 11.8 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,339 | 13.1 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,264 | 13.6 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,664 | 10.8 |
| 1922 | 21 | #1,930 | 17.5 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,897 | 17.8 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,675 | 10.8 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,653 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,400 | 7.8 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,792 | 10.2 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,469 | 8.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lorrain a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 646 Americans recorded as Lorrain, 98% are girls and 2% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lorrain: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lorrain, and how old are they?
An estimated 303 Americans named Lorrain and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (47% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 60 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 595 people named Lorrain (585 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 356 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Lorrain rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 8,639 babies since 1880, Lorrain is the fifth most given (7.5% of them).
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 Lorrain
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 Lorrain and names like it
- Compare Lorrain and LoriannBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLorrain peaked in 1921.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lorrain since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Lorrain.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lorrain alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.