Laraine

Where Laraine comes from

Laraine hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1913
    First appearance
    #2,540 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1920
    Laraine Day born
    American actress
  3. 1945
    Peak, #472
    232 babies named Laraine — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1949
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #856.
  5. 1952
    Laraine Newman born
    American actress, writer and comedian
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Laraine Day · American actress, 1920–2007
  • Laraine Newman · American actress, writer and comedian, born 1952
  • Laraine Stephens · American actress, born 1941

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.