Lorin

Where Lorin comes from

Lorin 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.

Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1913
    Peak, #681
    44 babies named Lorin — more than any year before or since.
  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 it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

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

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.