Lorn
Lorn is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
- English
Meaning & Origin of Lorn
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Lorn is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Lorn
American parents first put Lorn on the record books as a baby boy name in 1900, with 6 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1921, when 22 Lorns were born — ranking #1,648 that year. About 21% of every Lorn on record arrived during the 1920s, its defining decade. Lorn last appeared in the published SSA data in 2003, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 805 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1900s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Lorn
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Names that sound like Lorn
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About the name Lorn
Lorn is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1900 and has accumulated 805 births in the dataset. Lorn's peak popularity came in 1921 when it ranked #1,648. Use the chart and map above to compare Lorn'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 .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.