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Lurene vs Lurine

American parents have registered 890 Lurenes since 1880, against 252 Lurines. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lurene against Lurine, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lurene Lurine

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Lurene has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1898 to 1968. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1909, when Lurene had 7 and Lurine had 7.

Side by side

  Lurene Lurine
Total US births 890252
Most in one year 3615
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 24060
Median age today 7482
Peak year 19221928
Best rank 1,309th girls2,284th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18981909
Girls / boys 890 / 0252 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Lurines alive today are over 82; half the Lurenes are over 74. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lurene and Lurine.