Lorrain
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lorrain has been given to 646 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1921, with 22 recorded.
Babies named Lorrain, 1990
1 in 790,000
Lorrain 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Lorrain?
Lorrain had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1990, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1990
- 1 in 790,000
- 5 of 3,949,959 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 379,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1990
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 547,582 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lorrain sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1990 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 547,582 children born in 1990 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lorrain. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lorrains were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lorrain was born before 1945 — so the typical Lorrain is around 80 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 25.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 13.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 277
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 25.3% of all recorded uses (161).
Is Lorrain 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 1921 (22)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.5% average annual change
Spellings of Lorrain
Lorrain is not the most common spelling — Lorraine is, with 78.2% against Lorrain's 0.24%.
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 Lorrain is used
Across 1910–2025, Lorrain was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,084,400 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 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. Lorrain has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Lorrain around the world
Where Lorrain 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.
- South Australia1946–1968#489in 1968
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Lorrain by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Lorrain
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lorrain
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.