How popular is the name Lorinda?

Lorinda ranks 1,888th among girls' names in US records, with 6,019 births since 1886. Over the past decade it accounts for 25.

Is Lorinda a unisex name?

No. Lorinda is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1965, when 224 children were given the name. It has been in use for 138 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Laurinda. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#1,888 of girl names

Pronounced L AO1 R IY1 N D AH0 (ARPABET)

Lorinda is a girls' name, and first appears in 1886. It has been given to 6,019 children — the 1,888th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 25 births across the past decade, against a peak of 224 in a single year. That peak was in 1965.

Laurinda is counted with it here, since the two are pronounced identically.

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These spellings sound identical to Lorinda and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Lorinda?: Lorinda ranks 1,888th among girls' names in US records, with 6,019 births since 1886. Over the past decade it accounts for 25.
Is Lorinda a unisex name?: No. Lorinda is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Lorinda most popular?: 1965, when 224 children were given the name. It has been in use for 138 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Lorinda spelled?: Laurinda. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.