Loren

Where Loren comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Loren.

  • German
  • Latin
Loren through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #363 among boys, with 22 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1936
    Loren Acton born
    astronaut
  3. 1939
    Peak, #199
    625 babies named Loren, its best rank.
  4. 1969
    Loren Bouchard born
    American director and musician
  5. 1988
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  6. 1988
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #527.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name.
  • A male given name from German Lorenz, Spanish Lorenzo, or Italian Lorenzo, equivalent to English Laurence, all in turn derived from Latin Laurentius (“Lawrence”).
  • A female given name from Latin, of rare usage, variant of Lauren.
Namesakes
  • Loren Bouchard · American director and musician, born 1969
  • Loren Acton · astronaut, born 1936
  • Loren Shriver · American astronaut, born 1944
  • Loren Gray · American singer, social media personality, and model from Pennsylvania, born 2002
  • Loren Alfonso · Cuban-Azerbaijani boxer, born 1995

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.