girls:
22 births since 1954
#5694 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.3k births since 1883
#3328 (27th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1883
#6435 (17th percentile)
The name Loring is the #6,435 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,307 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 16.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,328 (27.4% percentile) for all time with 1,285 births since 1883. For girls, it ranks #5,694 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 22 births since 1954.
Loring first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (1883 for boys and 1954 for girls). Birth data for Loring is available in 80 out of the 108 years between 1883 and 1990 (80 years for boys and 4 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 Loring has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Loring reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 5.3% percentile (ranked #517) with 30 births per million. The name was most common in 1896, with 62 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
For girls, Loring reached its peak popularity in 1954, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #722) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1973.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Loring".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Loring. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.4% confident that Loring is pronounced as LAW-rihng, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LAW-rihng, at 14.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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