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Lorenz

#9,383 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Laurentius

Lorenz has been given to 1,754 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #9,383 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Lorenz, 2025

1 in 414,000

Lorenz over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lorenz: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Laurentius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lorenz means

Lorenz is a form of Laurentius.

Origin, language, and formation

Lorenz is used in German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Laurentius and Laurence.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Lorenz is pronounced /ˈloːʁɛnts/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,754 boys were recorded with the name Lorenz between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 39 in 1918; its best national rank was #799 in 1887.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,163 in 2020 to #9,383 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,351 in 2015 to #9,383 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lorenz?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,383
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lorenz sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lorenz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lorenzs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lorenz was born before 1953 — so the typical Lorenz is around 72 today.

Median birth year
1953
About 72 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
15.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
915
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1910s — 15.2% of all recorded uses (266).

Is Lorenz 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
−1,292
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,220
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,032
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.73×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.5%
Peak was 1918 (39)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#799
1887

Spellings of Lorenz

Lorenz is not the most common spelling — Lorenzo is, with 48.1% against Lorenz's 0.98%.

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 Lorenz is used

Across 1910–2025, Lorenz was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 655,968 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in 100,000
  2. 2Nebraska1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7Minnesota1 in —
  8. 8New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Lorenz has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lorenz around the world

Where Lorenz 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
    1996–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1904–2025
    #4,902
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2023
    #2,747
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1979–1998
    #534
    in 1998

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

Lorenz by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,383
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,220
Best rank ever
#799
1887
Peak year
1918
39 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,754
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Lorenz

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

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Sibling names for Lorenz

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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