Lorene

Where Lorene comes from

The dictionaries list Lorene as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1914
    Lorene Rogers born
    American biochemist
  3. 1920
    Peak, #167
    1,353 babies named Lorene — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1933
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #243.
  5. 1978
    Lorene Scafaria born
    American actress, film director and writer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Lorene Scafaria · American actress, film director and writer, born 1978
  • Lorene Rogers · American biochemist, 1914–2009
  • Lorene Prieto · Chilean singer and actress, born 1966
  • Lorene T. Coates · American politician in North Carolina, born 1936
  • Lorene Cary · American educator, author and social activist, born 1957

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.