Lorin

Where Lorin comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Lorin.

Lorin through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys, with 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1913
    Peak, #681
    44 babies named Lorin, its best rank.
  3. 1930
    Lorin Maazel born
    French-American conductor
  4. 1975
    Lorin Morgan-Richards born
    American author, illustrator, and songwriter
  5. 1990
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #3,309.
  6. 2022
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Lorin Maazel · French-American conductor, 1930–2014
  • Lorin Morgan-Richards · American author, illustrator, and songwriter, born 1975
  • Lorin S. Robert · politician, 1956–2025
  • Lorin Dreyfuss · American actor and producer, 1944–2021
  • Lorin Farr · American politician, 1820–1909

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.