girls:
12.7k births since 1909
#1389 (76th percentile)
boys:
46.4k births since 1880
#525 (89th percentile)
overall:
59.1k births since 1880
#970 (87th percentile)
The name Loren is the #970 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 59,099 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 87.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #525 (88.6% percentile) for all time with 46,389 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #1,389 (75.7% percentile) for all time with 12,710 births since 1909.
Loren has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1909 for girls).
The name Loren has been given predominantly to boys, with 78.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 45.2% of babies named Loren were boys. Interestingly, until around 1990, the name was more popular for boys (88.3% boys from 1880 to 1989), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (64.2% girls from 1990 to 2023).
For boys, Loren reached its peak popularity in 1943, achieving the 62.9% percentile (ranked #212) with 466 births per million. The name was most common in 1925, with 553 births per million (ranked 62.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Loren ranks #859 for boys (5.7% percentile) with 31 births per million, which is 5.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Loren reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 45.6% percentile (ranked #469) with 225 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 225 births per million (ranked 45.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Loren ranks #883 for girls (6.8% percentile) with 39 births per million, which is 17.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Loren".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Lauren. View all variations of Lauren.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Loren", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 31 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Lauren" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Lauren..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Loren. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.0% confident that Loren is pronounced as LAW-ruhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LAW-rihn, at 14.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like L AO1 R AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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