Loran
Loran is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 635th, in 1902.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 194379 births
- Best rank
- #635in 1902
- Since 1880
- 4,531people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,714 boys have been named Loran in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1943, with 79 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 79 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1942, and the 1920s alone account for 16%. It has spent 46 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Loran is used for both sexes: 18% of its bearers are girls (817), most of them born around 1989.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Loran | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 23 | |
| 1890s | 40 | |
| 1900s | 80 | |
| 1910s | 418 | |
| 1920s | 609 | |
| 1930s | 539 | |
| 1940s | 553 | |
| 1950s | 453 | |
| 1960s | 403 | |
| 1970s | 209 | |
| 1980s | 171 | |
| 1990s | 103 | |
| 2000s | 63 | |
| 2010s | 39 | |
| 2020s | 11 |
In 1943, its biggest year
Loran was the 729th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1943 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1943.
Names that rose and fell with Loran
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Merrillpeak 1926
- Leonardpeak 1921
- Garlandpeak 1922
- Lloydpeak 1918
- Johnniepeak 1928
- Raymondpeak 1924
- Leroypeak 1924
- Cliffordpeak 1925
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.