Loreen
Lorine Zineb Nora Talhaoui, known professionally as Loreen, is a Swedish singer. Representing Sweden, she won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2012 and 2023 with the songs "Euphoria" and "Tattoo" respectively. She is the second performer, after Johnny Logan, to win the contest twice, and the first woman to do so.
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Meaning & Origin of Loreen
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Lorine Zineb Nora Talhaoui, known professionally as Loreen, is a Swedish singer. Representing Sweden, she won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2012 and 2023 with the songs "Euphoria" and "Tattoo" respectively. She is the second performer, after Johnny Logan, to win the contest twice, and the first woman to do so.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
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The Story of Loreen
Loreen first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1898, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1964: 128 births, good for #928 nationwide. About 28% of every Loreen on record arrived during the 1960s, its defining decade. Loreen last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 4K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1890s to the 2020s.
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About the name Loreen
Loreen is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1898 and has accumulated 4K births in the dataset. Loreen's peak popularity came in 1964 when it ranked #928. Use the chart and map above to compare Loreen's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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