Girl · French, from Germanic
Lorraine
Say it: lor-RAYN
Meaning
From the French region of Lorraine, from Lotharingia 'Lothar's realm'; Lothar is Germanic hlud 'fame' + hari 'army'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A place name used as an American girls' name from the late 19th century, peaking in the 1920s and 1930s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1920s
In the United States
- 209,926 babies given this name since 1882
- At its height in 1928, about 1 in 193 girls
- 157 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Loraine, Lorrain
Famous bearers
- Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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