Loraine
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ləɹejn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Loraine is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Durham and Northumb. see Lorraine .
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 16K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 21K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 360 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
9,120 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Durham and Northumb. see Lorraine .
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nordic Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Loraine, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Loraine counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 9,120 | 1 in 36K | 9.1K | Loraine | 360 |
| BR Brazil | — | 5,553 | 1 in 38K | 6.8K | — | 2 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Loraine | 88 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Loraine | 54 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 3 | Loraine | 160 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 872 | 1 in 20K | 872 | Loraine | 52 |
| NZ New Zealand | #838 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 11 | Loraine | 34 |
| GY Guyana | — | 209 | 1 in 3.6K | 209 | — | 4 |
9,120 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Loraine Brahamb. 1938AUAustralian politician
- Loraine Lagacéb. 1943CACanadian journalist and writer (1943-2013)
- Loraine Blaxterb. 1945GBBritish educationalist
- Loraine Oblerb. 1948USAmerican neuroscientist
- Loraine Gelsthorpeb. 1953GBBritish criminologist (1953-)
- Janine Turnerb. 1962USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1962)
- Loraine Barryb. 1964IEIrish ballroom dancer
- Loraine Lorelie Catalanb. 1984ESSpanish taekwondoin
- Loraine Henkelb. 1988DEGerman volleyball player
- Loraine T SinnottUSAmerican research statistician with the Data Coordination and Analysis Center at The Ohio State University, joint appointment with the College of Nursing and the College of Optometry
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 64 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9.1K | #2,614 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 6.8K | #2,757 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 5.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5.5K | #2,559 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 872 | #1,407 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 509 | #3,166 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 250 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 209 | #387 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 43 | #2,614 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 36 | #2,559 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 25 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1957 | 11 | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Loraine mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Durham and Northumb. see Lorraine . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Nordic Names.
- Is Loraine a male or female name?
- Loraine is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Loraine?
- In the etymology graph, Lorena, Lorraine and Laraine are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Loraine?
- A machine transcription gives /ləɹejn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Loraine have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.1 thousand people named Loraine, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled loraine.
- Where is Loraine most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Loraine is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 3.6 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Loraine?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,120 people named Loraine in 2020, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
- How common is Loraine compared with other names?
- In New Zealand, Loraine is the 838th most common given name of 26,737 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Loraine?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/loraineThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Loraine” — the 838th most common given name in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.