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How popular is “Lorraine” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lorraine” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Lorraine” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Lorraine” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Lorraine” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Lorraine” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Lorraine” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lorraine” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1882 6 0.000027084 6 100%
1884 9 0.000036967 9 100%
1885 5 0.000020759 5 100%
1886 7 0.000027417 7 100%
1887 6 0.000024253 6 100%
1888 20 0.000066784 20 100%
1889 20 0.000069217 20 100%
1890 25 0.000082946 25 100%
1891 21 0.000073254 21 100%
1892 31 0.000092711 31 100%
1893 28 0.000086095 28 100%
1894 36 0.000106292 36 100%
1895 48 0.000136744 48 100%
1896 45 0.00012588 45 100%
1897 56 0.000161403 56 100%
1898 75 0.000196616 75 100%
1899 75 0.000221086 75 100%
1900 118 0.000262072 118 100%
1901 106 0.000306525 101 5 91%
1902 103 0.000266334 103 100%
1903 125 0.000327912 125 100%
1904 126 0.000312279 126 100%
1905 154 0.000363274 149 5 94%
1906 159 0.000371104 159 100%
1907 192 0.000412557 192 100%
1908 253 0.000517754 253 100%
1909 269 0.000526188 269 100%
1910 310 0.000524791 310 100%
1911 365 0.000566526 365 100%
1912 560 0.000566766 554 6 98%
1913 733 0.000644617 724 9 98%
1914 987 0.000696865 969 18 96%
1915 1337 0.000729634 1323 14 98%
1916 1687 0.000872097 1671 16 98%
1917 1981 0.000987168 1961 20 98%
1918 3904 0.001798158 3876 28 99%
1919 4006 0.001898358 3976 30 99%
1920 3951 0.001746188 3928 23 99%
1921 4563 0.00195459 4533 30 99%
1922 4691 0.002049227 4668 23 99%
1923 4785 0.002078193 4764 21 99%
1924 5135 0.002156104 5109 26 99%
1925 5013 0.002148457 4983 30 99%
1926 4915 0.002140768 4891 24 99%
1927 5757 0.002482152 5729 28 99%
1928 6005 0.002655977 5982 23 99%
1929 5383 0.002455568 5352 31 99%
1930 5206 0.002341577 5166 40 98%
1931 4610 0.002190661 4588 22 99%
1932 4186 0.001982673 4162 24 99%
1933 3817 0.001909028 3797 20 99%
1934 3795 0.001827316 3775 20 99%
1935 3431 0.001641705 3405 26 98%
1936 3186 0.001533516 3167 19 99%
1937 2959 0.001388765 2940 19 99%
1938 2761 0.001247868 2740 21 98%
1939 2607 0.001183149 2593 14 99%
1940 2595 0.001126945 2579 16 99%
1941 2712 0.001113106 2688 24 98%
1942 3024 0.001106955 3010 14 99%
1943 3032 0.001074202 3015 17 99%
1944 3058 0.00113677 3046 12 99%
1945 3221 0.001214138 3207 14 99%
1946 3897 0.001219601 3886 11 99%
1947 4419 0.001226709 4414 5 100%
1948 3759 0.001088771 3745 14 99%
1949 3466 0.000994612 3457 9 99%
1950 3354 0.000957367 3344 10 99%
1951 3490 0.000947407 3484 6 100%
1952 3472 0.000914164 3465 7 100%
1953 3318 0.000861003 3309 9 99%
1954 3480 0.000874216 3467 13 99%
1955 3379 0.000841577 3372 7 100%
1956 3434 0.000832881 3429 5 100%
1957 3433 0.000816964 3420 13 99%
1958 3170 0.00076683 3162 8 99%
1959 3144 0.000756134 3139 5 100%
1960 3344 0.000805043 3337 7 100%
1961 3124 0.00075417 3113 11 99%
1962 2958 0.000733018 2951 7 100%
1963 2598 0.000656359 2592 6 100%
1964 2372 0.000610144 2356 16 99%
1965 2067 0.000570136 2060 7 99%
1966 1747 0.000502639 1742 5 99%
1967 1527 0.000449793 1522 5 99%
1968 1335 0.000395156 1330 5 99%
1969 1248 0.000359103 1248 100%
1970 1159 0.000321363 1159 100%
1971 977 0.000284644 977 100%
1972 775 0.00024658 775 100%
1973 733 0.000242966 733 100%
1974 634 0.000208553 634 100%
1975 656 0.000217262 656 100%
1976 544 0.000179284 544 100%
1977 499 0.000157091 494 5 98%
1978 507 0.000159742 507 100%
1979 523 0.000157199 523 100%
1980 502 0.000145739 502 100%
1981 490 0.000141644 490 100%
1982 471 0.000134266 471 100%
1983 432 0.000124735 432 100%
1984 379 0.000108635 379 100%
1985 413 0.000115715 413 100%
1986 355 0.000099801 355 100%
1987 374 0.000103727 374 100%
1988 363 0.00009824 363 100%
1989 337 0.000087659 330 7 96%
1990 341 0.000086275 341 100%
1991 306 0.000078557 306 100%
1992 279 0.000072632 279 100%
1993 278 0.000073735 278 100%
1994 213 0.000057294 213 100%
1995 215 0.000058709 215 100%
1996 184 0.00005045 184 100%
1997 159 0.000043853 159 100%
1998 144 0.00003915 144 100%
1999 151 0.000040879 151 100%
2000 164 0.000043387 164 100%
2001 126 0.000033659 126 100%
2002 118 0.000031565 118 100%
2003 130 0.00003419 130 100%
2004 128 0.0000335 128 100%
2005 97 0.000025229 97 100%
2006 110 0.000027805 110 100%
2007 158 0.000039523 158 100%
2008 122 0.000031038 122 100%
2009 100 0.000026177 100 100%
2010 82 0.000022188 82 100%
2011 108 0.000029526 108 100%
2012 87 0.000023788 87 100%
2013 123 0.000033739 123 100%
2014 115 0.000031028 115 100%
2015 122 0.000032965 122 100%
2016 144 0.000039251 144 100%
2017 138 0.000038588 138 100%
2018 137 0.000038966 137 100%
2019 158 0.000045521 158 100%
2020 157 0.000046998 157 100%
2021 161 0.000047521 161 100%
2022 181 0.000053501 181 100%
2023 166 0.000050133 166 100%
2024 157 0.000047168 157 100%

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