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Lorne

#13,151 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Lorne has been given to 4,352 babies in the U.S. since 1903. In 2025 it ranked #13,151 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1966, with 186 recorded.

Babies named Lorne, 2025

1 in 663,000

Lorne over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lorne: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lorne means

Lorne is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Lorne is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,302 boys were recorded with the name Lorne between 1903 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 186 in 1966; its best national rank was #560 in 1966.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,439 in 2020 to #13,151 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,426 in 2015 to #13,151 in 2025.

In the United States, 50 girls were recorded with the name Lorne between 1928 and 1985. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1928; its best national rank was #4,007 in 1928.

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 Lorne?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,151
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lorne 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lorne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lornes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lorne was born before 1966 — so the typical Lorne is around 59 today.

Median birth year
1966
About 59 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
33.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,341
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1960s — 33.5% of all recorded uses (1,441).

Is Lorne 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
−1,348
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,712
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,725
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.29×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.7%
Peak was 1966 (186)
Years since peak
59
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#560
1966

Spellings of Lorne

Lorne is not the most common spelling — Jorge is, with 31.4% against Lorne's 0.97%.

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 Lorne is used

Across 1910–2025, Lorne was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 103,013 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Indiana1 in 100,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 100,000
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  7. 7Maryland1 in 100,000
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 100,000

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

Lorne around the world

Where Lorne 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
    1996–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • Scotland
    1974–2008
    #535
    in 2008
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #1,727
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1963–1974
    #455
    in 1974

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Lorne

People whose public names include Lorne, 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.

Lorne by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,151
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,712
Best rank ever
#560
1966
Peak year
1966
186 that year
First recorded
1903
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,302
Count in 2025
5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,007
1928
Peak year
1928
7 that year
First recorded
1928
Last recorded
1985
All-time count
50
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lorne

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

LorinLoranLorenzLorenArneLordVerneLorenzaLorikLoringLorisLorenceLorcanLoriOsborneLornLoretoLorasLorryThorneLorrenLorenzoLoryLora

Names with a curve like Lorne

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

PernellLisaStoneyKirtDerwinThadRaynardKraigDarronDarenDinoKelley

Sibling names for Lorne

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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