Lorrene
Lorrene was last recorded in 1971, when 6 babies were given it; 556 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 and 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lorrene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lorrene?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,909, in 1971; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1923, the peak
Lorrene peaked in 1923, when 20 girls were given it, #1,996 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 6 | #7,909 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,264 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,125 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,433 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,471 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,575 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,212 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,447 | 7.9 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,922 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,263 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 13 | #3,603 | 6.4 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,937 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,809 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,083 | 4.9 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,257 | 7.0 |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,048 | 7.7 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,857 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,860 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,052 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,632 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,558 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,521 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,436 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,587 | 3.9 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,866 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,553 | 6.0 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,396 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 15 | #2,231 | 12.4 |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,253 | 12.2 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,040 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,077 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,636 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,458 | 11.5 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,380 | 12.4 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,336 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,794 | 9.9 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,750 | 10.3 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,504 | 11.3 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,970 | 8.9 |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,053 | 9.0 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,701 | 10.4 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,439 | 7.5 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,647 | 11.0 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,447 | 12.3 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,897 | 9.6 |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,996 | 16.6 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,553 | 11.7 |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,061 | 8.9 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,814 | 10.0 |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,120 | 15.0 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,929 | 9.5 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,793 | 10.2 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,751 | 10.5 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,427 | 7.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lorrene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lorrene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lorrene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lorrene, and how old are they?
An estimated 230 Americans named Lorrene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (41% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 64 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 302 people named Lorrene (300 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 281 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Lorrene?
Lorrene is a less common spelling of Lorene: SSA has recorded 556 Lorrene and 39,492 Lorene since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 324,553 babies since 1880, Lorrene is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 453 babies recorded by SSA was a Lorrene (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Lorrene
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 Lorrene and names like it
- Compare Lorrene and LoreneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLorrene peaked in 1923.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lorrene since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Lorrene.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lorrene alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.