Loralee — girls' name
1,799 babies named Loralee in U.S. Social Security records since 1922, with the highest year being 1938. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
20% of everyone ever named Loralee was born in this single decade.
48 babies were named Loralee in 1938 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Loralee
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,799 babies named Loralee between 1922 and 2023, spanning 102 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Loralee currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1938, when 48 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Loralee performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 361 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Loralee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 142 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Michigan and Utah. In total, SSA state-level files list Loralee in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Loralee in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,799 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Loralee at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Loralee popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1922
- Peak year (1938)
- 48
- Annual births at peak — across 102 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
1,799 total births across 102 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1938 with 48 births in a single year.
Loralee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 361 births that decade — 20% of Loralee's all-time total
Loralee decade highlights
- Peak decade 361 births
- Runner-up 319 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Loralee's strongest decade
361 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 20% of all-time use.
Loralee by state
Where Loralee concentrates geographically — total births since 1922
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 142 | 7.9% |
| #2 | Michigan | | 16 | 0.9% |
| #3 | Utah | | 16 | 0.9% |
| #4 | New York | | 11 | 0.6% |
| #5 | Minnesota | | 10 | 0.6% |
| #6 | Pennsylvania | | 10 | 0.6% |
| #7 | Illinois | | 9 | 0.5% |
| #8 | Massachusetts | | 6 | 0.3% |
142 of 1,799 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 8 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 7.9% of nationwide
- Michigan 0.9% of nationwide
- Utah 0.9% of nationwide
- New York 0.6% of nationwide
- Minnesota 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 8 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 7.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1922–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.