Lorraina
Lorraina was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,837 among girls’ names; 400 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lorraina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lorraina?
#9,837 among girls’ names, 2025
Lorraina fell from #8,264 in 2015 to #9,837 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 6.2 per million.
14 babies in 2015, the peak
Lorraina peaked in 2015, when 14 girls were given it, #8,264 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,837 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,912 | 4.3 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,605 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,962 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,707 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,887 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,546 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,413 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,409 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,264 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 11 | #9,900 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,750 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,468 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,201 | 4.0 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,416 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,743 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,245 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,302 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,509 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,031 | 6.5 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,672 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,857 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,592 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,676 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,990 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,478 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,974 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,786 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,276 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,876 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,567 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,820 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,920 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,363 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,173 | 3.4 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,864 | 4.1 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,497 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,447 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,265 | 5.2 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,273 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,804 | 3.9 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,108 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,331 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,670 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,470 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,266 | 3.1 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,337 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,794 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,674 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lorraina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lorraina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lorraina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lorraina, and how old are they?
An estimated 388 Americans named Lorraina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 12 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 415 people named Lorraina (412 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 355 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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.
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 233,384 babies since 1880, Lorraina is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 303 babies (3.3%), the fourth 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 Lorraina
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 Lorraina and names like it
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