girls:
2.7k births since 1947
#3357 (41st percentile)
boys:
4.7k births since 1880
#1754 (62nd percentile)
overall:
7.4k births since 1880
#3141 (59th percentile)
The name Lorin is the #3,141 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,377 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 59.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 59.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,754 (61.7% percentile) for all time with 4,722 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,357 (41.3% percentile) for all time with 2,655 births since 1947.
Lorin has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1947 for girls). Birth data for Lorin is available in 130 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (125 years for boys and 76 years for girls). 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 Lorin has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (64.0% of all recorded births). In 2023, 50.0% of babies named Lorin were boys.
For boys, Lorin reached its peak popularity in 1965, achieving the 16.5% percentile (ranked #537) with 59 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 82 births per million (ranked 9.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Lorin ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 4.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Lorin reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 12.9% percentile (ranked #719) with 54 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 54 births per million (ranked 12.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1993, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Lorin ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 6.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lorin".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Lorin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Lorin is pronounced as LAW-rihn, which has 2 syllables.
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