Lorren — unisex name
409 babies named Lorren in U.S. Social Security records since 1956, with the highest year being 1989. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
36% of everyone ever named Lorren was born in this single decade.
30 babies were named Lorren in 1989 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Lorren
The Social Security Administration has registered 409 babies named Lorren between 1956 and 2021, spanning 66 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lorren currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 30 babies received it in a single year. Lorren is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 368 additional births since 1915.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Lorren performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 149 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Lorren shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Lorren in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Lorren 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 409 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.
Lorren at a glance
Last recorded 2021Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Lorren popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–1956
- Peak year (1989)
- 30
- Annual births at peak — across 66 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2021.
409 total births across 66 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1989 with 30 births in a single year.
Lorren popularity over time — boys
368 total births recorded since 1915 (Lorren as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Lorren accounts for 47% of total recorded use across both genders.
Lorren by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 149 births that decade — 36% of Lorren's all-time total
Lorren decade highlights
- Peak decade 149 births
- Runner-up 105 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Lorren's strongest decade
149 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 36% of all-time use.
Lorren by state
Where Lorren concentrates geographically — total births since 1956
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 1.2% |
5 of 409 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 1.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 1.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1956–2021 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.