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Lorinda

#14,225 in 2025Girls' name

Elaboration of Lori

Lorinda has been given to 4,682 babies in the U.S. since 1886. In 2025 it ranked #14,225 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1965, with 168 recorded.

Babies named Lorinda, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lorinda: meaning, origin, and history

Elaboration of Lori

Latin

What Lorinda means

Lorinda is a elaboration of Lori.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lorinda is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /lə.ˈɹɪn.də/ for Lorinda.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Lorinda → Lori → Laurie → laurus → laura. The family’s meaning is “Egyptian rue (Ruta angustifolia)”, recorded in Latin with the source elements laura.

Origin, language, and formation

Lorinda is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lori and Laurinda.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,682 girls were recorded with the name Lorinda between 1886 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 168 in 1965; its best national rank was #765 in 1965.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #18,057 in 2015 to #14,225 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 Lorinda?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,225
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lorinda 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lorinda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lorindas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lorinda was born before 1964 — so the typical Lorinda is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
30.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,004
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 30.8% of all recorded uses (1,443).

Is Lorinda 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,832
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.6%
Peak was 1965 (168)
Years since peak
60
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#765
1965

Spellings of Lorinda

Lorinda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 88.2% against Lorinda's 0.28%.

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 Lorinda is used

Across 1910–2025, Lorinda was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 71,219 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 25,000
  2. 2Washington1 in 25,000
  3. 3California1 in 33,333
  4. 4Indiana1 in 33,333
  5. 5Arizona1 in 50,000
  6. 6Idaho1 in 50,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 50,000
  8. 8Kansas1 in 50,000

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

Lorinda around the world

Where Lorinda 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.

  • France
    1973–2014
    #7,871
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    1961–2003
    #739
    in 2003

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

Notable people named Lorinda

People whose public names include Lorinda, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Lorinda in other languages

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

LorinaLaurinda

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

Lorinda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,225
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#765
1965
Peak year
1965
168 that year
First recorded
1886
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,682
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Lorinda

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

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Names with a curve like Lorinda

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

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Sibling names for Lorinda

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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