Loral
Loral was last recorded in 2005, when 6 babies were given it; 155 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Loral by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Loral?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,635, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1934, the peak
Loral peaked in 1934, when 14 babies were given it (6 girls, #4,093 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 6 | #15,635 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,721 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,332 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,103 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,185 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,256 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,334 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,747 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,336 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,339 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 5 | #6,156 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,854 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,554 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 5 | #3,826 | |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,093 | 8 | #2,865 |
| 1933 | under 5 | 5 | #3,951 | |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,118 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 5 | #4,625 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 6 | #4,153 | |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,722 | under 5 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 6 | #4,120 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 8 | #3,383 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 6 | #3,663 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 5 | #3,548 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Loral a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 155 Americans recorded as Loral, 65% are girls and 35% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Loral: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Loral, and how old are they?
An estimated 75 Americans named Loral and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 263 people named Loral (210 women and girls, 53 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 85 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Loral rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,785 babies since 1880, Loral is the fifth most given (5.6% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Loral and names like it
- Compare Loral and LorealBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sLoral peaked in 1934.
- The top names of 1934The year the most babies were named Loral.
- Names starting with LMost given first.