How popular is the name Lorna?

Lorna ranks 750th among girls' names in US records, with 28,502 births since 1885. Over the past decade it accounts for 397.

Is Lorna a unisex name?

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

1957, when 758 children were given the name. It has been in use for 140 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#750 of girl names

Pronounced L AO1 R N AH0 (ARPABET)

Lorna is a girls' name, and first appears in 1885. It has been given to 28,502 children — the 750th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 397 births across the past decade, against a peak of 758 in a single year. That peak was in 1957.

1957Girls: 758Boys: 0

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 Lorna?: Lorna ranks 750th among girls' names in US records, with 28,502 births since 1885. Over the past decade it accounts for 397.
Is Lorna a unisex name?: No. Lorna is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Lorna most popular?: 1957, when 758 children were given the name. It has been in use for 140 years and is still recorded as of 2024.