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Lauraine

#16,255 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Lorraine

Lauraine has been given to 761 babies in the U.S. since 1906. In 2025 it ranked #16,255 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1952, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Lauraine, 2025

1 in 663,000

Lauraine 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lauraine: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Lorraine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lauraine means

Lauraine is a variant of Lorraine.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lauraine is used in English (Rare).

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Lauraine → 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, 761 girls were recorded with the name Lauraine between 1906 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1952; its best national rank was #1,854 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 Lauraine?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,255
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lauraine 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lauraine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lauraines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lauraine was born before 1945 — so the typical Lauraine is around 80 today.

Median birth year
1945
About 80 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
19.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.66%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
299
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1920s — 19.3% of all recorded uses (147).

Is Lauraine 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
21.7%
Peak was 1952 (23)
Years since peak
73
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,854
1945

Spellings of Lauraine

Lauraine is not the most common spelling — Lorraine is, with 49.5% against Lauraine's 0.18%.

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 Lauraine is used

Across 1910–2025, Lauraine was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 434,286 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in —
  4. 4Minnesota1 in —
  5. 5Wisconsin1 in —

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. Lauraine has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lauraine around the world

Where Lauraine 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.

  • Ireland
    1978–1978
    #522
    in 1978
  • France
    1915–2012
    #5,890
    in 2012
  • Canada
    2017–2020
    #2,936
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1946–1968
    #679
    in 1968

Popularity data from Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Lauraine by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,255
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#1,854
1945
Peak year
1952
23 that year
First recorded
1906
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
761
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Lauraine

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

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Sibling names for Lauraine

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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