girls:
1k births since 1900
#4692 (18th percentile)
boys:
213 births since 1913
#4373 (5th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1900
#6504 (16th percentile)
The name Lorain is the #6,504 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,237 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 15.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,692 (17.9% percentile) for all time with 1,024 births since 1900. For boys, it ranks #4,373 (4.6% percentile) for all time with 213 births since 1913.
Lorain first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (1900 for girls and 1913 for boys). Birth data for Lorain is available in 71 out of the 110 years between 1900 and 2009 (70 years for girls and 23 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Lorain has been given predominantly to girls, with 82.8% of all recorded births being female. In 2009, 100.0% of babies named Lorain were girls.
For girls, Lorain reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 5.1% percentile (ranked #575) with 30 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 36 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2009.
For boys, Lorain reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #506) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 17 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1939.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lorain".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Lorain. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.2% confident that Lorain is pronounced as law-RAYN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ler-AYN, at 22.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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