Lorena
The girl's name Lorena has been in the national records since 1880, with 45,179 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,291st. About 32,000 Lorenas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 39.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lorena boys named Lorena
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 45,179
- Estimated living today
- 32,000
- Median age today
- 39
- Peak year
- 1980
- Best rank
- 302nd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,291st
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 44,960 / 219
How old the living Lorenas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 45,179 babies given the name since 1880, about 32,000 are alive — 71 in every hundred. Roughly 3,700 of them are children and 3,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1986 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Italian
and by folk etymology associated with Laura. Henry Webster's title for his song was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's Lenore.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Lorenas
- Lorena Rojas (1971–2015)Mexican singer and actress
- Lorena Ochoa (born 1981)Mexican professional golfer
- Lorena Guréndez (born 1981)Spanish rhythmic gymnast
- Lorena Wiebes (born 1999)Dutch cyclist
- Lorena Gale (1958–2009)Canadian actress
- Lorena Miranda (born 1991)Spanish water polo player
- Lorena Bernal (born 1981)Spanish actor-model
- Lorena Herrera (born 1967)Mexican actress, singer and model
People named Lorena with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lorena is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lorena is most concentrated in California (3.3×), Texas (2.5×), New Mexico (2.2×), Arizona (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1980
The most popular girls’ names the year Lorena peaked:
Lorena elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain girls | Lorena | 7,771 | 37th |
| France girls | Lorena +2 spellings | 4,455 | 290th |
| Italy girls | Lorena | 3,474 | — |
| Switzerland girls | Lorena | 3,450 | 24th |
| Belgium girls | Lorena +1 spelling | 1,136 | 178th |
| England and Wales girls | Lorena | 830 | 655th |
| Poland girls | Lorena | 170 birth registrations | 274th |
| Scotland girls | Lorena | 59 | 324th |
| Ireland girls | Lorena | 54 | 504th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Lorena | 3 | 424th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Lorena: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Lorena | 3,039 | 0.244% | 19th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Lorena | 356 | 0.082% | 98th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Lorena | 35 | 0.054% | 66th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Lorena | 20 | 0.538% | 1st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Lorena is most concentrated in Appenzell Innerrhoden, where 0.75% of children were given it – 29 of them.
Lorena: rank by region
In 2025, Lorena was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Lorena | 531 | 9 |
| Wallonia | Lorena | 399 | 6 |
In 2016, Lorena was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Lorena | 10 | 1 |
In 2024, Lorena was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lubelskie | Lorena | 148 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Lorena | 255 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Lorena appears in the lists for Province of Liège (157th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Lorena by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 53 | 206th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Lorena among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Lorena | 49 | 73 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Lorena lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 62,508 women called Lorena were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asturias | Lorena | 2,306 | 4.346 | 46 |
| León | Lorena | 934 | 4.062 | 55 |
| Pontevedra | Lorena | 1,928 | 3.931 | 55 |
| Ourense | Lorena | 605 | 3.814 | 49 |
| Coruña, A | Lorena | 2,009 | 3.399 | 61 |
| Cantabria | Lorena | 1,035 | 3.381 | 63 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Lorena against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.