Lorin
Lorin is a boy's name that peaked in 1965, when it was the 705th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2025. About 5,000 Lorins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 44.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lorin boys named Lorin
Girls and boys called Lorin
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Lorin crossed from boys to girls in 1983, and has stayed there for 29 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% girls, and in 2016 it was 55%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 100 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7,406
- Estimated living today
- 5,000
- Median age today
- 44
- Peak year
- 1965
- Best rank
- 705th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 2,677 / 4,729
How old the living Lorins are
born that year still alive today
Of the 7,406 babies given the name since 1880, about 5,000 are alive — 68 in every hundred. Roughly 350 of them are children and 990 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1981 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Lorins
- Lorin Maazel (1930–2014)French-American conductor
- Lorin Morgan-Richards (born 1975)American author, illustrator, and songwriter
People named Lorin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lorin is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lorin is most concentrated in Utah (19.2×), Idaho (11.1×), California (2.9×), Ohio (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1965
The most popular boys’ names the year Lorin peaked:
Lorin elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland boys | Lorin | 933 | 143rd |
| France girls | Lorin +1 spelling | 220 | 2,493rd |
| Switzerland girls | Lorin | 180 | 420th |
| England and Wales girls | Lorin | 147 | 2,019th |
| France boys | Lorin | 75 | 4,547th |
| Belgium girls | Lorin | 51 | 788th |
| Scotland girls | Lorin | 7 | 532nd |
| Belgium boys | Lorin | 5 | 1,025th |
| Poland girls | Lorin | 4 birth registrations | 724th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Lorin: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Lorin | 908 | 0.073% | 111th |
| German girls | Switzerland | Lorin | 163 | 0.013% | 290th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Lorin | 21 | 0.005% | 522nd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Lorin | 14 | 0.003% | 509th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Lorin | 4 | 0.006% | 194th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Lorin | 3 | 0.005% | 110th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Lorin is most concentrated in Bern, where 0.14% of children were given it – 277 of them.
Lorin: rank by region
In 2017, Lorin was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Lorin | 726 | 6 |
In 2017, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Lorin appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (334th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Lorin by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 23 | 351st |
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 4 | 593rd |
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 555th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Lorin among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Lorin | 29 | 38 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Lorin against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.