Lorine
Feminine · “laurel”
Lorine is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 8,750 girls against 12 boys since 1880.
Lorine takes the laurel and adds an ending. Laura comes from the Latin for the laurel tree, whose leaves crowned victors and poets — the reason a poet laureate is called that, and the reason a degree is a baccalaureate. The -ine on the end is a French suffix that American naming used heavily to make women's names from shorter ones.
How old is the name Lorine?
Lorine first appears in US birth records in 1889 — 136 years ago. The typical Lorine alive today was born around 1928, making them about 97 years old. About 2,700 people named Lorine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lorine most popular?
Lorine peaked in 1922, reaching #396 nationally. See the whole 1922 chart.
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Where it comes from
From laurus to Lorine
The story of Lorine
The laurel crown was Roman before it was anything else, and the association with poets came through a specific route: Petrarch was crowned with laurel in Rome in the fourteenth century, and the woman his sonnets are addressed to was called Laura, which fixed the connection permanently in European literature. The name spread from there. The -ine and -ene endings were productive in American naming through the first half of the twentieth century, generating Lorine, Corine, Maxine and Nadine from shorter bases, and Lorine belongs squarely to that period.
Meaning
laurel
Latin laurus is the bay laurel, and the wreath made from it was the standard honor for a victorious general and, later, for a poet. Laura descends from it, probably through Laurentius rather than directly. The suffix -ine is French and does not add meaning; it marks the name as a woman's. The related Lorraine is a different word entirely — a French region named for a Carolingian king — and the two names have been confused for a century.
How the name formed
- laurus
- Laura
- Lorine
Related forms: Laurine · Laura · Laurina
Pronouncing Lorine
lor-EEN
lor-EEN, two syllables, stress at the back, the ending said as a long e. Some say LOR-in with the weight at the front, following Lauren rather than the French ending, and both are heard in American use.
Nicknames for Lorine
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1889
- Most girls named
- 1922277 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #396reached in 1922
- Change vs 2017
- −37.5%5 in 2024, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Lorine in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Laurine in French — same name
- Laura in Italian — related form
- Laurina in Spanish — same name
Lorines among us
people named Lorine are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Lorine sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The laurel is a concrete image with two thousand years of documented use behind it.
- Lori is available as a short form that is entirely at home in English.
- The -ine ending is written the way it is said, which -yn and -in are not.
- Lorraine, Loreen and Laurine are all close, and the name gets written as each in turn.
- The stress falls at either end depending on the reader, so the name is said two ways.
- The -ine ending places the name in an earlier American century about as precisely as a date stamp.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lorines are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,700 people named Lorine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lorine in 2025?
- Lorine is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Lorine with classmates?
- Lorine will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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