Feminine dossier · first seen 1900

Lorain

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Lorain
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1928

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Silent Generation

1900Peak 19282024

Peak year

1928

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,024

Lorain has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Silent Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1928, when 36 girls were named Lorain.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 1,024 Americans have been named Lorain and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1900.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationSilent Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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