Given name & surname
Loring
“one who is famous in battle”
Loring is used as a given name and a surname. One German interpretation is “one who is famous in battle.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One German interpretation is “one who is famous in battle.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1883. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Loring through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,307
- 1,285 boys · 22 girls
- Most popular year
- 1922
- 34 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1990. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 34 in 1922. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 692 as a first name in 2020; 3,367 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Loring’s family of names
Loring has a related form in Louise. Loring has a related form in Lorring. Loring has a related form in Lorryng.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Loring
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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