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Loris

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Diminutive of Lorenzo

Loris has been given to 2,280 babies in the U.S. since 1903. 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 1935, with 64 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 75% girls, 25% boys all-time.

Babies named Loris, 2019

1 in 694,000

Loris over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Loris over time

In 2024, Loris went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19032024

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Loris: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Lorenzo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Loris means

Loris is a diminutive of Lorenzo.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Loris is used in Italian.

Origin, language, and formation

Loris is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lorenzo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,701 girls were recorded with the name Loris between 1903 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 64 in 1935; its best national rank was #863 in 1935.

In the United States, 579 boys were recorded with the name Loris between 1912 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1923; its best national rank was #1,518 in 1931.

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.

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How common is Loris?

Loris had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 336,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Loris 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 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Loris. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Loriss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Loris was born before 1937 — so the typical Loris is around 88 today.

Median birth year
1937
About 88 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
22.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
532
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1930s — 22.8% of all recorded uses (387).

Is Loris 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 1935 (64)
Years since peak
90
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
53.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#863
1935

Spellings of Loris

Loris is not the most common spelling — Doris is, with 18.7% against Loris's 0.07%.

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 Loris is used

Across 1910–2025, Loris was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 484,305 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Louisiana1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5Minnesota1 in —
  6. 6Washington1 in —
  7. 7Wisconsin1 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. Loris has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Loris around the world

Where Loris 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
    2003–2011
    #4,764
    in 2011
  • France
    1982–2010
    #7,416
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1944–1966
    #658
    in 1966

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

Loris by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#863
1935
Peak year
1935
64 that year
First recorded
1903
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
1,701
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,518
1931
Peak year
1923
22 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
579
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Loris

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

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Sibling names for Loris

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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