Lorena

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Lorena: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Lorena: Recorded since 1983, with a gap of 10 years, it reached #424 in 2019, and it stood at #504 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
46times a registrar ranked it
42years from first to last
#424highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Lorena's record

Absent from every published list for 10 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1997	#2411
1998	#1823
1999	#1675
2000	#1250
2001	#1617
2002	#1784
2003	#1269
2004	#1836
2005	#1500
2006	#1280
2007	#1573
2008	#1584
2009	#1083
2010	#1093
2011	#1117
2012	#1150
2013	#1048
2014	#1204
2015	#942
2016	#938
2017	#771
2018	#1035
2019	#1349
2020	#771
2021	#901
2022	#655
2023	#657
2024	#708

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 15 of the 42 years from 1983 to 2024.

In 2024: #504 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #638 among girls in Scotland, #708 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1983–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1983
First recorded at #529 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1983 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #708 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Lorena appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 776 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1983.

Lorena across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Lorena's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#529 (1983)	#504 (2024)	#504 (2024)	15 of 42	54 (1983–2024)	7 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#655 (2022)	#708 (2024)	29 of 29	776 (1996–2024)	57 (2022)

Lorena by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Lorena in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	28	4 of 10	7
2000s	161	10 of 10	16
2010s	336	10 of 10	34
2020sbusiest	251	5 of 10	50

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 50 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Lorena appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1983 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #424 in Northern Ireland in 2019.

Lorena's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#708	53	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#657	55	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#655	57	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#901	39	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#771	47	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1349	23	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1035	34	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#771	51	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#938	39	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#942	38	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1204	28	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1048	34	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1150	29	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1117	30	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1093	30	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1083	29	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1584	17	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1573	16	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1280	20	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1500	15	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1836	11	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1269	17	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1784	10	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1617	11	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1250	15	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1675	10	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1823	9	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#504	7	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#628	5	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#768	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#635	4	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#528	3	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#519	3	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#529	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1983 and 2024, ranked in 32 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #424, first reached in 2019.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 57 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 10 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 41 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Lorelle · #2105, 19y
Loren · #337, 31y
Lorenna · #2300, 11y
Lorentz · #296, 21y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Bree · #424, 29y
Ferne · #424, 27y
Calla · #418, 27y
Fox · #418, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Jordana · #423, 18y
Darlene · #432, 19y
Raisa · #408, 30y
Vikki · #408, 14y

Lorena was ranked #424 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2019. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Lorena and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Lorena without appearing here.

Lorena moved ahead of

Karin Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1675 and #1557 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #1250 and #3912.
Teddy Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3795 and #3795 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1784 and #4137.
Brittany Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1500 and #1500 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1280 and #3548.
Ellinor Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2411 and #2152 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #1675 and #3900.

Moved ahead of Lorena

Fiadh Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1035 and #1436 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1349 and #1063.
Blake Compare
In 2015 they stood at #942 and #1240 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #938 and #768.
Harper Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1083 and #1171 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1093 and #930.
Luca Compare
In 2012 they stood at #768 and #907 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #747 and #747.

Moved the opposite way to Lorena

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lorena went from #3795 to #708 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lorena went from #3795 to #708 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lorena went from #3795 to #708 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lorena went from #3795 to #708 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Lorena

Barbara Compare
Between 1983 and 2021 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Lorena went from #529 to #883 and Barbara from #117 to #883.
Geraldine Compare
Between 1983 and 2021 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Lorena went from #529 to #883 and Geraldine from #67 to #883.
Kelly Compare
Between 1983 and 2021 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Lorena went from #529 to #883 and Kelly from #109 to #464.
Leanne Compare
Between 1983 and 2021 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Lorena went from #529 to #883 and Leanne from #117 to #883.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1983 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #424 in Northern Ireland in 2019. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Lorena

Lorena at a glance

What stands out in Lorena's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Lorena across 2 official records

Lorena by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Lorena appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1980s

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Lorena and the names beside it

Lorena moved ahead of

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Lorena at a glance

What stands out in Lorena's record

Lorena across 2 official records

Lorena by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Lorena appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Lorena

Lorena and the names beside it

Lorena moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Lorena

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