Loren
Loren is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 50 births. Its best rank was 200th, in 1939.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 500.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1955716 births
- Best rank
- #200in 1939
- Since 1880
- 59,222people given the name
The story in the numbers
46,439 boys have been named Loren in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1955, with 716 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1952, and the 1950s alone account for 14%. It has spent 119 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Loren is used for both sexes: 22% of its bearers are girls (12,783), most of them born around 1990.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Loren | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 230 | |
| 1890s | 276 | |
| 1900s | 447 | |
| 1910s | 3,093 | |
| 1920s | 5,810 | |
| 1930s | 5,573 | |
| 1940s | 6,398 | |
| 1950s | 6,617 | |
| 1960s | 6,353 | |
| 1970s | 4,010 | |
| 1980s | 3,632 | |
| 1990s | 2,019 | |
| 2000s | 1,016 | |
| 2010s | 683 | |
| 2020s | 282 |
In 1955, its biggest year
Loren was the 260th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1955 were Michael, David, James, Robert and John. See all of 1955.
Names that rose and fell with Loren
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Myronpeak 1930
- Robertpeak 1947
- Carltonpeak 1957
- Daviepeak 1955
- Gilbertpeak 1930
- Glenpeak 1957
- Paulpeak 1957
- Lorinpeak 1965
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.