Lorine

Where Lorine comes from

Lorine 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1889
    First appearance
    #1,279 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1903
    Lorine Niedecker born
    American poet
  3. 1922
    Peak, #396
    277 babies named Lorine — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1937
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #585.
  5. 2005
    Lorine Schild born
    French figure skater
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Lorine Schild · French figure skater, born 2005
  • Lorine Niedecker · American poet, 1903–1970
  • Lorine Chebet · Kenyan volleyball player, born 1999
  • Lorine Livingston Pruette · American psychologist, 1896–1976

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.