Loren

Where Loren comes from

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

  • German
  • Latin
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #363 among boys — 22 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1936
    Loren Acton born
    astronaut
  3. 1939
    Peak, #199
    625 babies named Loren — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1969
    Loren Bouchard born
    American director and musician
  5. 1988
    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.
  6. 1988
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #527.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name.
  • A male given name from German Lorenz, Spanish Lorenzo, or Italian Lorenzo, equivalent to English Laurence, all in turn derived from Latin Laurentius (“Lawrence”).
  • A female given name from Latin, of rare usage, variant of Lauren.
Namesakes
  • Loren Bouchard · American director and musician, born 1969
  • Loren Acton · astronaut, born 1936
  • Loren Shriver · American astronaut, born 1944
  • Loren Gray · American singer, social media personality, and model from Pennsylvania, born 2002
  • Loren Alfonso · Cuban-Azerbaijani boxer, born 1995

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.