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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Lorain

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

1,024

peak year 1928

More common than

90%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1928
36 births
Best rank
#1,182
in 1907
First recorded
1900
#2,095 that year
Last recorded
2009
no later published record
Average birth year
1937
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
70 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 192836#1,279Peak
  2. 191935#1,307
  3. 192134#1,391
  4. 192233#1,414
  5. 192433#1,458

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,182 in 1907 · peak births 36 in 1928

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 17% boys■ 83% girls

213 boys · 1,024 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Lorain has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.