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Lorin

boys’ name · 64%girls’ name · 36%FadedCompare

Lorin is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 686th, in 1913.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
60.00% of boys
Peak year
1965111 births
Best rank
#686in 1913
Since 1880
7,395people given the name
Babies named Lorin, by year of birthboysgirls
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The story in the numbers

4,728 boys have been named Lorin in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1965, with 111 births.

The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 111 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1952, and the 1960s alone account for 15%. It has spent 53 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Lorin is used for both sexes: 36% of its bearers are girls (2,667), most of them born around 1989.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Lorin
1880s10
1890s37
1900s63
1910s405
1920s599
1930s443
1940s635
1950s665
1960s712
1970s445
1980s362
1990s195
2000s75
2010s63
2020s19

In 1965, its biggest year

Lorin was the 708th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1965 were Michael, John, David, James and Robert. See all of 1965.

Names that rose and fell with Lorin

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.