girls:
50 births since 1928
#5666 (1st percentile)
boys:
4.3k births since 1903
#1854 (60th percentile)
overall:
4.3k births since 1903
#4158 (46th percentile)
The name Lorne is the #4,158 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,341 recorded births since 1903. This represents the 46.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 46.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,854 (59.6% percentile) for all time with 4,291 births since 1903. For girls, it ranks #5,666 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 50 births since 1928.
Lorne first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1903 (1903 for boys and 1928 for girls). Birth data for Lorne is available in 117 out of the 121 years between 1903 and 2023 (117 years for boys and 9 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 Lorne has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Lorne reached its peak popularity in 1965, achieving the 26.3% percentile (ranked #474) with 96 births per million. The name was most common in 1966, with 102 births per million (ranked 25.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Lorne ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 3.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Lorne reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #604) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1985.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lorne".
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