girls:
233 births since 1958
#5483 (4th percentile)
boys:
23 births since 2017
#4563 (0th percentile)
overall:
256 births since 1958
#7483 (3rd percentile)
The name Lorian is the #7,483 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 256 recorded births since 1958. This represents the 3.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,483 (4.0% percentile) for all time with 233 births since 1958. For boys, it ranks #4,563 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 23 births since 2017.
Lorian first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1958 (1958 for girls and 2017 for boys). Birth data for Lorian is available in 38 out of the 65 years between 1958 and 2022 (34 years for girls and 4 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 Lorian has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 91.0% of all recorded births being female. In 2022, 0.0% of babies named Lorian were girls. Interestingly, until around 2018, the name was more popular for girls (97.9% girls from 1958 to 2017), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 2018 to 2022).
For girls, Lorian reached its peak popularity in 1963, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #761) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1963, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2013.
For boys, Lorian reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #922) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lorian".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Lorian is pronounced as LAW-ree-uhn, which has 3 syllables.
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