boys:
805 births since 1900
#3782 (17th percentile)
overall:
805 births since 1900
#6934 (10th percentile)
The name Lorn is the #6,934 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 805 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 10.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,782 (17.5% percentile) for all time with 805 births since 1900.
Lorn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (first recorded for boys in 1900). Birth data for Lorn is available in 76 out of the 104 years between 1900 and 2003. 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 boys, Lorn reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #533) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 37 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2003.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lorn".
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