Lorentz
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lorentz has been given to 23 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1918, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Lorentz, 1934
1 in 415,000
Lorentz over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Lorentz?
Lorentz had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1934, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1934
- 1 in 415,000
- 5 of 2,076,780 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 207,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1934
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,904 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lorentz sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1934 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 287,904 children born in 1934 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lorentz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lorentzs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lorentz was born before 1918 — so the typical Lorentz is around 107 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 78.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 78.3% of all recorded uses (18).
Is Lorentz 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 1918 (7)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.0% average annual change
Spellings of Lorentz
Lorentz is not the most common spelling — Lorenzo is, with 61.5% against Lorentz's 0.02%.
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.
Lorentz around the world
Where Lorentz 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.
- France1997–2022#7,118in 2022
- Norway1880–2025#448in 2025
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Norway. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.
Lorentz by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lorentz
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lorentz
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.