girls:
39.3k births since 1880
#682 (88th percentile)
boys:
113 births since 1915
#4473 (2nd percentile)
overall:
39.4k births since 1880
#1249 (84th percentile)
The name Lorene is the #1,249 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 39,448 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 83.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #682 (88.1% percentile) for all time with 39,335 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,473 (2.4% percentile) for all time with 113 births since 1915.
Lorene has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1915 for boys). Birth data for Lorene is available in 141 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (141 years for girls and 17 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 Lorene has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Lorene reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 72.7% percentile (ranked #167) with 1,088 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 1,107 births per million (ranked 72.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lorene ranks #933 for girls (1.5% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 1.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lorene reached its peak popularity in 1936, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #515) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1936, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1968.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lorene".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Lorene. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 60.5% confident that Lorene is pronounced as law-REEN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LAW-reen, at 18.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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