In 2025, 6 US girls were named Lorinda, making it the 14,229th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #765, reached in 1965. That year also had the most girls given the name: 168. For comparison, it was #18,063 in 2015 and #1,158 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lorinda in 110 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 6 babies. In all, 4,682 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,443 babies named Lorinda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 26 US girls were named Lorinda; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 7. In 2025 that was about 1 in 267,878 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Laurinda, Lorenda and Lorrinda are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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