Lore
Lore is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 100.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 196156 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1915
- 1,118people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,118 girls have been named Lore in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1961, with 56 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1961, and the 1960s alone account for 34%.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lore | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 10 | |
| 1920s | 46 | |
| 1930s | 83 | |
| 1940s | 67 | |
| 1950s | 296 | |
| 1960s | 375 | |
| 1970s | 122 | |
| 1980s | 67 | |
| 1990s | 6 | |
| 2000s | 10 | |
| 2010s | 5 | |
| 2020s | 31 |
In 1961, its biggest year
Lore was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1961 were Mary, Lisa, Susan, Linda and Karen. See all of 1961.
Names that rose and fell with Lore
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nanettepeak 1957
- Nannettepeak 1963
- Doreenpeak 1956
- Mitzipeak 1961
- Teresapeak 1961
- Teresepeak 1957
- Tamapeak 1959
- Coleenpeak 1959
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.