Lorraine

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Lorraine is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Ireland it is the 36th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: French placename used as a first name in Ireland; linked with St Joan of Arc and originally the Kingdom of Lotharingia.

rarermore common
  • IEIreland1 in 359◐
  • AUAustralia1 in 361
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 515

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈795K ●

across 9 countries

#464 ●

of 16M given names

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
573 ●

4.6M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 207 ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

LaurenLatin · English●3.1M records
לורןHebrew · Hebrew●8.1K records
ЛоррейнCyrillic · Russian●8 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lauren in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 8 more, לורן in FR France, IL Israel, NZ New Zealand, Laurén in FI Finland and Laurent in CH Switzerland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

French placename used as a first name in Ireland; linked with St Joan of Arc and originally the Kingdom of Lotharingia.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Lorraine is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#109446,0613.8M rec.1 in 746446KLauren573
GB United Kingdom#84401,319306K rec.—4Lauren281
FR France—328,505△327 rec.1 in 207329Kלורן12
AU Australia#58321,341221K rec.—94Lauren268
CA Canada#122101,45478K rec.—13Lauren224
PH Philippines#80126,25221K rec.——Lorraine128
IE Ireland#3625,95211K rec.—124Lauren124
ZA South Africa#9122,60322K rec.——Lorraine135
BR Brazil—18,690△99 rec.1 in 11K19KLorraine5
IT Italy#42216,32516K rec.—2Lorraine75
IL Israel#73711,98616K rec.—1.6Kלורן56
DE Germany#98511,04111K rec.—2Lorraine128

Roughly 446K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 746). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English2M74%
  • Portuguese249K9%
  • 100K4%
  • Spanish93K3%
  • French65K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English2,042,83674%
Portuguese249,1199%
99,7584%
Spanish92,9283%
French65,0492%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Lorraine is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian given name5.0K records spelled Lorraine4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Malagasy

    Also written Lõrrãïñë

64 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Lorraine is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, From the French region name Lorraine, originally from Lotharingia.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In English, Old German; from the province on the border of France and Germany.

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  • In English, From the province on the old German border of France, Germany

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  • In English, French placename; from Lorraine, eastern France

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  • In French, Loughan see Logan raine in NE France, so called from the Gmc tribal name Lotharingi ‘people of Lothar’ (a personal name composed of the elements hlod famous, renowned + hari, heri army); cf. the mod. Ger. name of the region, Lothringen. Loughlan see Lachlan Vars.: Fr.: (Le) Lorrain. Eng.: Loraine; Lor(r)ain, Lo(a)ring. Ger. and Jewish (W Ashkenazic): Lotring, Lot(h)ringer.

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02K4K6K1900195020006K · 1928

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Lorraine in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1882–2025
Yearrecords
18826
18849
18855
18867
18876
188820
188920
189025
189121
189231
189328
189436
189548
189645
189756
189875
189975
1900118
1901101
1902103
1903125
1904126
1905149
1906159
1907192
1908253
1909269
1910310
1911365
1912554
1913724
1914969
19151,323
19161,671
19171,961
19183,876
19193,976
19203,928
19214,533
19224,668
19234,764
19245,109
19254,983
19264,891
19275,729
19285,982
19295,352
19305,166
19314,588
19324,162
19333,797
19343,775
19353,405
19363,167
19372,940
19382,740
19392,593
19402,579
19412,688
19423,010
19433,015
19443,046
19453,207
19463,886
19474,414
19483,745
19493,457
19503,344
19513,484
19523,463
19533,312
19543,467
19553,372
19563,430
19573,420
19583,163
19593,138
19603,338
19613,113
19622,951
19632,592
19642,356
19652,060
19661,741
19671,522
19681,330
19691,248
19701,159
1971977
1972775
1973733
1974635
1975655
1976544
1977494
1978507
1979523
1980502
1981489
1982472
1983432
1984379
1985413
1986355
1987374
1988363
1989330
1990341
1991306
1992279
1993278
1994213
1995215
1996184
1997159
1998144
1999151
2000164
2001126
2002118
2003130
2004128
200597
2006110
2007158
2008122
2009100
201082
2011108
201288
2013123
2014115
2015122
2016144
2017138
2018137
2019158
2020157
2021161
2022182
2023166
2024157
2025238

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 143 years between 1882–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Jane Powell, b. 1929Lorraine Hansberry, b. 1930Lorraine Gary, b. 1937Lorraine Bracco, b. 1954Lorraine Desmarais, b. 1956Lorraine Kelly, b. 1959Lorraine Toussaint, b. 1960Lorraine Downes, b. 1964Shanice, b. 1973Lorraine Nicholson, b. 1990

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 88 sources across 48 countries.

Official registers attesting Lorraine
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020107K#526
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202219K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—19K#1,114
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—18K#1,501
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20244.2K#2,916
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010941#26,042
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020920#27,730
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000910#25,503
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020592—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—437#3,486
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025307#309
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—267#3,291

Reference works 8

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 801 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Lorraine?
We estimate roughly 795 thousand people bear Lorraine (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Lorraine have the most bearers?
We estimate about 446 thousand people bear Lorraine in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled lauren.
Where is Lorraine most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lorraine is densest in France — about 1 in 207 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Lorraine compared with other names?
In the United States, Lorraine is the 109th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Lorraine a male or female name?
Lorraine is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Lorraine mean?
Recorded meaning: French placename used as a first name in Ireland; linked with St Joan of Arc and originally the Kingdom of Lotharingia.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lorraine” — the 109th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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