Lorene
Lorene is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 23 births. Its best rank was 167th, in 1920.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 230.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19201,353 births
- Best rank
- #167in 1920
- Since 1880
- 39,361people given the name
The story in the numbers
39,361 girls have been named Lorene in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 1,353 births — 0.11% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 23 births in 2024, against 1,353 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1920s alone account for 29%. It has spent 87 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lorene | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 66 | |
| 1890s | 435 | |
| 1900s | 1,653 | |
| 1910s | 8,034 | |
| 1920s | 11,243 | |
| 1930s | 6,180 | |
| 1940s | 3,906 | |
| 1950s | 3,368 | |
| 1960s | 2,309 | |
| 1970s | 885 | |
| 1980s | 467 | |
| 1990s | 302 | |
| 2000s | 242 | |
| 2010s | 176 | |
| 2020s | 95 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Lorene was the 167th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Lorene
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Concettapeak 1924
- Dorathypeak 1921
- Vernicepeak 1923
- Erlinepeak 1927
- Aleasepeak 1925
- Alenepeak 1920
- Onetapeak 1922
- Alverapeak 1918
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.