girls:
4.7k births since 1886
#2485 (57th percentile)
overall:
4.7k births since 1886
#3994 (48th percentile)
The name Lorinda is the #3,994 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,676 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 48.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 48.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,485 (56.5% percentile) for all time with 4,676 births since 1886.
Lorinda first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (first recorded for girls in 1886). Birth data for Lorinda is available in 109 out of the 138 years between 1886 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Lorinda reached its peak popularity in 1965, achieving the 21.2% percentile (ranked #597) with 92 births per million. The name was most common in 1969, with 94 births per million (ranked 20.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lorinda ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 4.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lorinda".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Lorinda. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 57.9% confident that Lorinda is pronounced as law-RIHN-duh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ler-IHN-duh, at 23.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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