Lorien
#11,508 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lorien has been given to 957 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #11,508 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1979, with 41 recorded.
Babies named Lorien, 2025
1 in 414,000
Lorien 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Lorien?
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 girls only
- 1 in 201,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #11,508
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lorien sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lorien. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Loriens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lorien was born before 1987 — so the typical Lorien is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 26.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 36.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 919
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 26.7% of all recorded uses (247).
Is Lorien 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
- +3,025
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +5,036
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,621
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.73×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 19.5%
- Peak was 1979 (41)
- Years since peak
- 46
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.8% average annual change
Spellings of Lorien
Lorien is not the most common spelling — Lori is, with 54.3% against Lorien's 0.15%.
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 Lorien is used
Across 1910–2025, Lorien was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 633,491 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Michigan1 in —
- 3New York1 in —
- 4Texas1 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. Lorien has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Lorien around the world
Where Lorien 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 & Wales1996–2023#5,688in 2023
- Scotland1995–1995#639in 1995
- France2004–2004#5,152in 2004
- South Australia1985–2003#739in 2003
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Lorien by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Lorien
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lorien
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.