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Loren

Loren means "Latin laurus, laurel" and comes from Latin, giving it real etymological depth as a gender-neutral name. It is not as common as it was in the 1960s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Its single strongest year on record was 1964.

EtymologyShort for Lorenzo/Laurence
LatinLatin "laurus" – "laurel"
Births by decade
1900s
453
1910s
3,134
1920s
5,885
1930s
5,623
1940s
6,534
1950s
7,245
1960s
7,437
1970s
4,960
1980s
6,289
1990s
5,538
2000s
3,190
2010s
1,420
Peaked in the 1960s · 57,708 total U.S. births since 1900