In 2025, 10 US girls were named Lorin, making it the 9,839th most common girls’ name of the year, down 529 places from #9,310 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 11 girls named Lorin in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,402, reached in 1989. That year also had the most girls given the name: 107. For comparison, it was #7,146 in 2015 and #2,849 in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Lorin in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #686, reached in 1913. The most boys given the name in a single year was 111, in 1965. For comparison, it was #11,566 in 2015 and #790 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lorin in 132 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 7,406 US babies have been given the name, 36% of them girls and 64% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 998 babies named Lorin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 104 US girls were named Lorin; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Loren (59,320 babies since 1880), Lorene (39,492 babies since 1880), Loraine (17,624 babies since 1880) and Lorine (8,762 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lorrian are summarised on this page.