Meaning not yet researched.
Lorne: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #560 in 1966.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #560 in 1966; #13,155 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lorne in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#13,155 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1966, at #560.
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Lorne: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 boys in 2025. Peak: #560 in 1966 · most boys in one year: 186 (1966).
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Lorne, making it the 13,155th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,347 places from #11,808 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 6 boys named Lorne in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #560, reached in 1966. That year also had the most boys given the name: 186. For comparison, it was #5,430 in 2015 and #1,639 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lorne in 119 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1903 with 5 babies. In all, 4,352 US babies have been given the name, 1.1% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,458 babies named Lorne.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 72 US boys were named Lorne; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 11. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Lorn 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lorn (805).
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 Lorne in the open dataset we use.
Lorne is listed as a nickname for Laurence, Lawrence.
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 | — | — | 5 | #13,155 |
| 2024 | — | — | 6 | #11,808 |
| 2023 | — | — | 7 | #10,358 |
| 2022 | — | — | 6 | #11,740 |
| 2021 | — | — | 8 | #9,356 |
| 2020 | — | — | 6 | #11,445 |
| 2019 | — | — | 7 | #10,401 |
| 2018 | — | — | 11 | #7,428 |
| 2017 | — | — | 10 | #7,921 |
| 2016 | — | — | 6 | #11,606 |
| 2015 | — | — | 17 | #5,430 |
| 2014 | — | — | 11 | #7,353 |
| 2013 | — | — | 8 | #9,334 |
| 2012 | — | — | 8 | #9,382 |
| 2011 | — | — | 9 | #8,512 |
| 2010 | — | — | 7 | #10,335 |
| 2009 | — | — | 10 | #8,069 |
| 2008 | — | — | 14 | #6,280 |
| 2007 | — | — | 8 | #9,414 |
| 2006 | — | — | 17 | #5,219 |
| 2005 | — | — | 6 | #10,950 |
| 2004 | — | — | 11 | #6,810 |
| 2003 | — | — | 10 | #7,043 |
| 2002 | — | — | 18 | #4,426 |
| 2001 | — | — | 21 | #3,924 |
| 2000 | — | — | 19 | #4,150 |
| 1999 | — | — | 16 | #4,470 |
| 1998 | — | — | 21 | #3,562 |
| 1997 | — | — | 11 | #5,514 |
| 1996 | — | — | 19 | #3,628 |
| 1995 | — | — | 17 | #3,786 |
| 1994 | — | — | 38 | #2,153 |
| 1993 | — | — | 25 | #2,836 |
| 1992 | — | — | 35 | #2,201 |
| 1991 | — | — | 34 | #2,177 |
| 1990 | — | — | 42 | #1,860 |
| 1989 | — | — | 32 | #2,183 |
| 1988 | — | — | 36 | #1,869 |
| 1987 | — | — | 47 | #1,520 |
| 1986 | — | — | 42 | #1,577 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,705 | 53 | #1,325 |
| 1984 | — | — | 48 | #1,377 |
| 1983 | — | — | 61 | #1,162 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,500 | 43 | #1,474 |
| 1981 | — | — | 55 | #1,243 |
| 1980 | — | — | 56 | #1,233 |
| 1979 | — | — | 49 | #1,333 |
| 1978 | — | — | 45 | #1,382 |
| 1977 | — | — | 30 | #1,765 |
| 1976 | — | — | 53 | #1,184 |
| 1975 | — | — | 49 | #1,221 |
| 1974 | — | — | 66 | #1,013 |
| 1973 | — | — | 65 | #1,004 |
| 1972 | — | — | 95 | #824 |
| 1971 | — | — | 92 | #852 |
| 1970 | — | — | 116 | #768 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,125 | 131 | #692 |
| 1968 | — | — | 147 | #624 |
| 1967 | — | — | 145 | #625 |
| 1966 | — | — | 186 | #560 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,211 | 182 | #568 |
| 1964 | — | — | 179 | #590 |
| 1963 | — | — | 159 | #619 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,266 | 171 | #594 |
| 1961 | — | — | 92 | #795 |
| 1960 | — | — | 49 | #1,127 |
| 1959 | — | — | 24 | #1,648 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,809 | 26 | #1,548 |
| 1957 | — | — | 25 | #1,614 |
| 1956 | — | — | 27 | #1,524 |
| 1955 | — | — | 30 | #1,410 |
| 1954 | — | — | 28 | #1,453 |
| 1953 | — | — | 13 | #2,246 |
| 1952 | — | — | 22 | #1,647 |
| 1951 | — | — | 27 | #1,442 |
| 1950 | — | — | 21 | #1,639 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,683 | 29 | #1,369 |
| 1948 | — | — | 29 | #1,369 |
| 1947 | — | — | 27 | #1,437 |
| 1946 | — | — | 20 | #1,625 |
| 1945 | — | — | 11 | #2,202 |
| 1944 | — | — | 22 | #1,464 |
| 1943 | — | — | 30 | #1,272 |
| 1942 | — | — | 22 | #1,516 |
| 1941 | — | — | 20 | #1,565 |
| 1940 | — | — | 25 | #1,351 |
| 1939 | — | — | 28 | #1,258 |
| 1938 | — | — | 18 | #1,660 |
| 1937 | — | — | 27 | #1,299 |
| 1936 | — | — | 26 | #1,308 |
| 1935 | — | — | 25 | #1,385 |
| 1934 | — | — | 27 | #1,307 |
| 1933 | — | — | 21 | #1,524 |
| 1932 | — | — | 28 | #1,313 |
| 1931 | — | — | 18 | #1,748 |
| 1930 | — | — | 31 | #1,293 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,986 | 22 | #1,590 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,009 | 28 | #1,404 |
| 1927 | — | — | 35 | #1,238 |
| 1926 | — | — | 38 | #1,169 |
| 1925 | — | — | 33 | #1,272 |
| 1924 | — | — | 27 | #1,475 |
| 1923 | — | — | 25 | #1,529 |
| 1922 | — | — | 21 | #1,735 |
| 1921 | — | — | 37 | #1,188 |
| 1920 | — | — | 23 | #1,624 |
| 1919 | — | — | 23 | #1,562 |
| 1918 | — | — | 29 | #1,329 |
| 1917 | — | — | 23 | #1,512 |
| 1916 | — | — | 22 | #1,532 |
| 1915 | — | — | 19 | #1,638 |
| 1914 | — | — | 21 | #1,326 |
| 1913 | — | — | 6 | #2,673 |
| 1912 | — | — | 11 | #1,584 |
| 1911 | — | — | 7 | #1,481 |
| 1910 | — | — | 7 | #1,373 |
| 1908 | — | — | 7 | #1,173 |
| 1907 | — | — | 8 | #1,061 |
| 1903 | — | — | 5 | #1,230 |
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).