Loraine

#5,172 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Lorraine

Loraine has been given to 17,624 babies in the U.S. since 1883. In 2025 it ranked #5,172 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1922, with 424 recorded.

Babies named Loraine, 2025

1 in 133,000

Loraine over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Loraine: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Lorraine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Loraine means

Loraine is a variant of Lorraine.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Loraine → 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, 17,284 girls were recorded with the name Loraine between 1883 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 424 in 1922; its best national rank was #310 in 1919.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,089 in 2020 to #5,172 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,836 in 2015 to #5,172 in 2025.

In the United States, 340 boys were recorded with the name Loraine between 1911 and 1940. Its highest annual count was 24 in 1923; its best national rank was #1,536 in 1915.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Loraine?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 133,000; 25 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 64,300; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #5,172; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 91,917 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Loraine 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 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Loraine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Loraines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Loraine was born before 1934 — so the typical Loraine is around 91 today.

Median birth year: 1934; About 91 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 22.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 2.9%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 5,549; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 22.9% of all recorded uses (3,964).

Is Loraine 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: +1,646; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +1,917; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +2,664; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.67×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 5.9%; Peak was 1922 (424)
Years since peak: 103; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 24.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #310; 1919

Spellings of Loraine

Loraine is not the most common spelling — Lorraine is, with 50.9% against Loraine's 4.2%.

Lorraine50.9%209,910
Lorene9.5%39,379
Lorie5.3%21,964
Corrine5.1%20,831
Lorrie4.2%17,342
Loraine4.2%17,284
Corine3.5%14,547
Florine2.7%11,254

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 Loraine is used

Across 1910–2025, Loraine was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 4,762 girls, against 1 in 12,866 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in —).

021 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Kentucky1 in 4,762
2Michigan1 in 5,556
3Wisconsin1 in 5,556
4West Virginia1 in 7,143
5Mississippi1 in 8,333
6Missouri1 in 9,091
7North Dakota1 in 9,091
8Illinois1 in 10,000

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

Loraine around the world

Where Loraine 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.

England & Wales
2002–2009
#5,556
in 2009
Scotland
1974–1984
#547
in 1984
Ireland
1964–1995
#516
in 1995
France
1954–2018
#6,747
in 2018
Canada
1996–2020
#3,347
in 2020
South Australia
1944–2012
#871
in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Loraine in other languages

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

Lorine Laraine Laurine Luraine Lauraine Lorraine

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

Loraine by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #5,172
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 1,917
Best rank ever: #310; 1919
Peak year: 1922; 424 that year
First recorded: 1883
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 17,284
Count in 2025: 25

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,536; 1915
Peak year: 1923; 24 that year
First recorded: 1911
Last recorded: 1940
All-time count: 340
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Loraine

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

Lorine Lorraine Lorelei Lorrine Lorelai Lorrie Lorinda Adaline Corrine Yasmine Loriann Jeanine Lorene Lorenza Lorena Lorie Loren Maurine Lorna Justine Jazmine Celine Kathrine Loralei

Names with a curve like Loraine

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

Avis Alyce Reva Sybil Bernadine Dolly Lenore Margery Concetta Enid Clarice Margret

Sibling names for Loraine

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

For a sister

Margret Alyce Cecile Enid Elnora Marietta Muriel Harriett

For a brother

Odell Wilbert Norris Elroy Rubin Garland Arlie Cleo

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