Lorna
Lorna is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 50 births. Its best rank was 298th, in 1941.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 500.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1957758 births
- Best rank
- #298in 1941
- Since 1885
- 28,475people given the name
The story in the numbers
28,475 girls have been named Lorna in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 758 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 1952, and the 1950s alone account for 23%. It has spent 85 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lorna | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 17 | |
| 1890s | 163 | |
| 1900s | 353 | |
| 1910s | 1,557 | |
| 1920s | 3,021 | |
| 1930s | 3,366 | |
| 1940s | 4,428 | |
| 1950s | 6,649 | |
| 1960s | 4,651 | |
| 1970s | 1,396 | |
| 1980s | 919 | |
| 1990s | 747 | |
| 2000s | 630 | |
| 2010s | 358 | |
| 2020s | 220 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Lorna was the 332nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1957 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Debra and Karen. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Lorna
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Madonnapeak 1954
- Vandapeak 1960
- Anitapeak 1957
- Wandapeak 1957
- Laurenepeak 1954
- Frediapeak 1948
- Arnettapeak 1953
- Twilapeak 1960
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.