Lorraine

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Lorraine is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 157 births. Its best rank was 39th, in 1928.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 1570.01% of girls
Peak year: 19285,982 births
Best rank: #39in 1928
Since 1882: 209,668people given the name

Babies named Lorraine, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

209,668 girls have been named Lorraine in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1928, with 5,982 births — 0.52% of all girls recorded that year.

The name has all but left use: 157 births in 2024, against 5,982 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1940, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 111 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 31 of them in the top 100.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Lorraine
1880s	73
1890s	440
1900s	1,595
1910s	15,729
1920s	49,939
1930s	36,333
1940s	33,047
1950s	33,591
1960s	22,251
1970s	7,002
1980s	4,109
1990s	2,270
2000s	1,253
2010s	1,214
2020s	822

In 1928, its biggest year

Lorraine was the 39th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1928 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1928.

Names that rose and fell with Lorraine

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

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.