# Loraine (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/loraine/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 17,624 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 340 / 17,284 (98% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 7, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 16 | 7,653 |
| 2012 | 22 | 6,031 |
| 2013 | 21 | 6,157 |
| 2014 | 13 | 8,769 |
| 2015 | 15 | 7,840 |
| 2016 | 22 | 5,901 |
| 2017 | 21 | 5,952 |
| 2018 | 20 | 6,158 |
| 2019 | 15 | 7,566 |
| 2020 | 16 | 7,093 |
| 2021 | 18 | 6,563 |
| 2022 | 19 | 6,368 |
| 2023 | 29 | 4,709 |
| 2024 | 17 | 6,822 |
| 2025 | 25 | 5,173 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1923 | 24 | 1,575 |
| 1924 | 15 | 2,178 |
| 1925 | 13 | 2,383 |
| 1926 | 24 | 1,544 |
| 1927 | 14 | 2,252 |
| 1928 | 8 | 3,257 |
| 1929 | 11 | 2,535 |
| 1930 | 8 | 3,179 |
| 1931 | 7 | 3,283 |
| 1932 | 10 | 2,564 |
| 1934 | 9 | 2,679 |
| 1935 | 7 | 3,140 |
| 1936 | 6 | 3,388 |
| 1939 | 7 | 3,007 |
| 1940 | 5 | 3,745 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 4 | 3,409 |
| 2009 | 3 | 5,556 |

## People named Loraine

- Janine Turner, American actress (born 1962)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.