Meaning and history
This name comes from the region of eastern France called Lorraine, whose name originally meant “kingdom of Lothar.” Lothar was a Frankish king and great-grandson of Charlemagne whose realm included what is now Lorraine, known in German as Lothringen from the Latin Lothari regnum. As a given name, Lorraine has been used in the English-speaking world since the late 19th century, possibly because it sounds like Laura, and it became more popular after World War I when the region drew attention as a contested area between Germany and France.
20062006: 110 births, rank #1,846
2007: 158 births, rank #1,475
2008: 122 births, rank #1,789
2009: 100 births, rank #2,041
2010: 82 births, rank #2,313
20112011: 108 births, rank #1,857
2012: 88 births, rank #2,145
2013: 123 births, rank #1,695
2014: 115 births, rank #1,781
2015: 122 births, rank #1,719
20162016: 144 births, rank #1,550
2017: 138 births, rank #1,580
2018: 137 births, rank #1,577
2019: 158 births, rank #1,415
2020: 157 births, rank #1,389
20212021: 161 births, rank #1,370
2022: 182 births, rank #1,295
2023: 166 births, rank #1,356
2024: 157 births, rank #1,420
20252025: 238 births, rank #1,043
Lorraine rose from #902 to #884 for girls between 1994 and 1995. Its highest annual birth count came in 1928, with 5,982 births.