Recorded 1880–2025 · United States
Lorin was most popular in 1989, when 139 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,977 that year. In 2025 it ranked #16,070, with 10 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 7,406 people named Lorin.
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Lorin 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 132 of the 146 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 7,406 American births named Lorin 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 5,077 are estimated to be alive today.
10 American babies were named Lorin in 2025, ranking #16,070 that year.
Lorin is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 13 births a year, against 22 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -42% over the decade.
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 Lorin is a unisex name — 36.1% of the 7,406 Americans given it were girls and 63.9% were boys. It changed hands: since 1983 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 67% girls and 33% 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 5,077 Americans named Lorin are alive today — 69% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 45 years old, and half are between 32 and 62. 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