Meaning not yet researched.
Loraine: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 25 in 2025. Its best rank was #310 in 1919.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #310 in 1919; #5,173 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Loraine in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,173 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1919, at #310.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Loraine: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 25 girls in 2025. Peak: #310 in 1919 · most girls in one year: 424 (1922).
In 2025, 25 US girls were named Loraine, making it the 5,173rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,649 places from #6,822 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 17 girls named Loraine in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #310, reached in 1919. The most girls given the name in a single year was 424, in 1922. For comparison, it was #7,840 in 2015 and #634 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Loraine in 141 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1883 with 8 babies. In all, 17,624 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 4,125 babies named Loraine.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 202 US girls were named Loraine; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 64,291 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lorraine (210,845 babies since 1880), Lorine (8,762 babies since 1880), Laraine (3,478 babies since 1880) and Laurine (2,526 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lauraine are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lauraine (761).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Loraine in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,173 | — | — |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,822 | — | — |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,709 | — | — |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,368 | — | — |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,563 | — | — |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,093 | — | — |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,566 | — | — |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,158 | — | — |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,952 | — | — |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,901 | — | — |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,840 | — | — |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,769 | — | — |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,157 | — | — |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,031 | — | — |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,653 | — | — |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,088 | — | — |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,923 | — | — |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,260 | — | — |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,042 | — | — |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,647 | — | — |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,539 | — | — |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,396 | — | — |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,469 | — | — |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,802 | — | — |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,296 | — | — |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,339 | — | — |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,546 | — | — |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,734 | — | — |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,457 | — | — |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,246 | — | — |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,346 | — | — |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,592 | — | — |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,599 | — | — |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,316 | — | — |
| 1991 | 38 | #3,020 | — | — |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,991 | — | — |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,963 | — | — |
| 1988 | 34 | #3,011 | — | — |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,294 | — | — |
| 1986 | 39 | #2,542 | — | — |
| 1985 | 42 | #2,382 | — | — |
| 1984 | 46 | #2,168 | — | — |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,702 | — | — |
| 1982 | 55 | #1,937 | — | — |
| 1981 | 45 | #2,248 | — | — |
| 1980 | 54 | #1,968 | — | — |
| 1979 | 49 | #2,071 | — | — |
| 1978 | 53 | #1,879 | — | — |
| 1977 | 63 | #1,670 | — | — |
| 1976 | 64 | #1,580 | — | — |
| 1975 | 54 | #1,745 | — | — |
| 1974 | 70 | #1,440 | — | — |
| 1973 | 63 | #1,503 | — | — |
| 1972 | 80 | #1,282 | — | — |
| 1971 | 99 | #1,168 | — | — |
| 1970 | 93 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 1969 | 123 | #968 | — | — |
| 1968 | 112 | #988 | — | — |
| 1967 | 100 | #1,032 | — | — |
| 1966 | 110 | #977 | — | — |
| 1965 | 132 | #872 | — | — |
| 1964 | 140 | #877 | — | — |
| 1963 | 176 | #782 | — | — |
| 1962 | 203 | #725 | — | — |
| 1961 | 228 | #691 | — | — |
| 1960 | 220 | #687 | — | — |
| 1959 | 233 | #658 | — | — |
| 1958 | 233 | #645 | — | — |
| 1957 | 227 | #654 | — | — |
| 1956 | 216 | #652 | — | — |
| 1955 | 218 | #631 | — | — |
| 1954 | 230 | #598 | — | — |
| 1953 | 186 | #663 | — | — |
| 1952 | 196 | #633 | — | — |
| 1951 | 208 | #596 | — | — |
| 1950 | 181 | #634 | — | — |
| 1949 | 184 | #610 | — | — |
| 1948 | 212 | #577 | — | — |
| 1947 | 236 | #554 | — | — |
| 1946 | 240 | #509 | — | — |
| 1945 | 221 | #487 | — | — |
| 1944 | 162 | #579 | — | — |
| 1943 | 203 | #529 | — | — |
| 1942 | 232 | #487 | — | — |
| 1941 | 180 | #516 | — | — |
| 1940 | 161 | #543 | 5 | #3,745 |
| 1939 | 163 | #523 | 7 | #3,007 |
| 1938 | 158 | #542 | — | — |
| 1937 | 179 | #490 | — | — |
| 1936 | 164 | #510 | 6 | #3,388 |
| 1935 | 211 | #445 | 7 | #3,140 |
| 1934 | 214 | #444 | 9 | #2,679 |
| 1933 | 241 | #413 | — | — |
| 1932 | 281 | #390 | 10 | #2,564 |
| 1931 | 278 | #391 | 7 | #3,283 |
| 1930 | 335 | #369 | 8 | #3,179 |
| 1929 | 355 | #346 | 11 | #2,535 |
| 1928 | 393 | #338 | 8 | #3,257 |
| 1927 | 381 | #342 | 14 | #2,252 |
| 1926 | 396 | #331 | 24 | #1,544 |
| 1925 | 421 | #325 | 13 | #2,383 |
| 1924 | 386 | #344 | 15 | #2,178 |
| 1923 | 412 | #319 | 24 | #1,575 |
| 1922 | 424 | #314 | 15 | #2,196 |
| 1921 | 407 | #327 | 20 | #1,801 |
| 1920 | 389 | #330 | 17 | #2,013 |
| 1919 | 414 | #310 | 13 | #2,336 |
| 1918 | 387 | #328 | 23 | #1,574 |
| 1917 | 365 | #322 | 17 | #1,872 |
| 1916 | 307 | #352 | 21 | #1,576 |
| 1915 | 296 | #344 | 21 | #1,537 |
| 1914 | 250 | #333 | 7 | #2,809 |
| 1913 | 186 | #357 | 7 | #2,399 |
| 1912 | 163 | #359 | 6 | #2,448 |
| 1911 | 116 | #379 | 5 | #1,900 |
| 1910 | 111 | #370 | — | — |
| 1909 | 90 | #387 | — | — |
| 1908 | 73 | #423 | — | — |
| 1907 | 77 | #406 | — | — |
| 1906 | 63 | #435 | — | — |
| 1905 | 60 | #433 | — | — |
| 1904 | 66 | #401 | — | — |
| 1903 | 55 | #431 | — | — |
| 1902 | 46 | #465 | — | — |
| 1901 | 37 | #503 | — | — |
| 1900 | 42 | #519 | — | — |
| 1899 | 34 | #511 | — | — |
| 1898 | 36 | #525 | — | — |
| 1897 | 29 | #561 | — | — |
| 1896 | 30 | #561 | — | — |
| 1895 | 26 | #602 | — | — |
| 1894 | 22 | #637 | — | — |
| 1893 | 26 | #559 | — | — |
| 1892 | 22 | #608 | — | — |
| 1891 | 15 | #713 | — | — |
| 1890 | 18 | #630 | — | — |
| 1889 | 15 | #675 | — | — |
| 1888 | 14 | #707 | — | — |
| 1886 | 11 | #717 | — | — |
| 1884 | 6 | #983 | — | — |
| 1883 | 8 | #732 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).