Recorded 1880–2023 · United States
Loran was most popular in 1943, when 79 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,557 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 4,531 people named Loran.
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Loran is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 128 of the 146 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 4,531 American births named Loran between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,328 are estimated to be alive today.
Loran was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Loran is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 6 births a year across 2021–2025 against 11 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Loran is mostly a boy’s name — 18.0% of the 4,531 Americans given it were girls and 82.0% were boys. It changed hands: since 1986 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 16% girls and 84% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 2,328 Americans named Loran are alive today — 51% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 55 years old, and half are between 35 and 69. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org