Lorne
About 4,352 American babies have been named Lorne since 1903, most of them around 1966. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 3,100 Lornes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 55.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lorne boys named Lorne
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,352
- Estimated living today
- 3,100
- Median age today
- 55
- Peak year
- 1966
- Best rank
- 559th
- Rank in 2025
- 12,008th
- First recorded
- 1903
- Girls / boys
- 50 / 4,302
How old the living Lornes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,352 babies given the name since 1903, about 3,100 are alive — 71 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1970 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.
Notable Lornes
- Lorne Michaels (born 1944)Canadian and American television producer, writer, and actor
- Lorne Greene (1915–1987)Canadian actor, musician, singer, and radio personality
- Lorne Balfe (born 1976)Scottish composer
- Lorne Cardinal (born 1964)Canadian actor and director
- Lorne Loomer (1937–2017)Canadian rower
- Lorne Currie (1871–1926)Olympic sailor
- Lorne Lanning (born 1964)American game designer
- Lorne Carr-Harris (1899–1981)Canadian-British ice hockey player
People named Lorne with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lorne is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lorne is most concentrated in Michigan (4.9×), California (2.3×), Louisiana (1.8×), New York (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1966
The most popular boys’ names the year Lorne peaked:
Lorne elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland boys | Lorne | 126 | 172nd |
| England and Wales boys | Lorne | 50 | 2,538th |
| Scotland girls | Lorne | 18 | 479th |
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.
Related names
Lorne against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.