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Laraine

Girls' name

Variant of Lorraine

Laraine has been given to 3,478 babies in the U.S. since 1913. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1947, with 268 recorded.

Babies named Laraine, 2024

1 in 557,000

Laraine over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Laraine: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Lorraine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Laraine means

Laraine is a variant of Lorraine.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Laraine is used in English.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Laraine → Lorraine. The family’s meaning is “kingdom of Lothar”, recorded in the naming reference for Lorraine.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lorraine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,478 girls were recorded with the name Laraine between 1913 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 268 in 1947; its best national rank was #472 in 1945.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Laraine?

Laraine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Laraine sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laraine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Laraines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Laraine was born before 1948 — so the typical Laraine is around 77 today.

Median birth year
1948
About 77 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
44.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,559
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1940s — 44.1% of all recorded uses (1,534).

Is Laraine rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1947 (268)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#472
1945

Spellings of Laraine

Laraine is not the most common spelling — Lorraine is, with 65.6% against Laraine's 1.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Laraine is used

Across 1910–2025, Laraine was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 50,256 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 14,286
  2. 2New York1 in 16,667
  3. 3Hawaii1 in 20,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 20,000
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 33,333
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  7. 7Ohio1 in 50,000
  8. 8California1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Laraine has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Laraine around the world

Where Laraine ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Scotland
    1979–1984
    #547
    in 1984
  • South Australia
    1944–1974
    #683
    in 1974

Popularity data from National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Laraine

People whose public names include Laraine, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Laraine in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Laraine. Linked forms have their own page here.

LarainaLoraineLuraineLauraine

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Laraine by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#472
1945
Peak year
1947
268 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
3,478
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Laraine

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Laraine

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Laraine, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

SharenSuellenHedyGlyndaDianJudieCarolannSharynGeorgeannPaulettaSherronSherrill

Sibling names for Laraine

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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