Loralee
Loralee was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,504 among girls’ names; 1,808 Americans have been recorded with it since 1922 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,400 Americans named Loralee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 44 and 71.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Loralee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Loralee?
#11,504 among girls’ names, 2025
Loralee rose from #13,884 in 2015 to #11,504 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 5.0 per million.
48 babies in 1938, the peak
Loralee peaked in 1938, when 48 girls were given it, #1,038 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,504 | 5.0 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,032 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,114 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,525 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,983 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,481 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,902 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,685 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,231 | 7.9 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,884 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (95)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 10 | #10,605 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,044 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,919 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,883 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,154 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,600 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,306 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,402 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,300 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,450 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,245 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,976 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,732 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,596 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,980 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,107 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,244 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,722 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,151 | 4.4 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,419 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,700 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,176 | 9.2 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,465 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,997 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,761 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,726 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,041 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,453 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,444 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,372 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,333 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,002 | 11.8 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,804 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,146 | 15.7 |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,713 | 19.2 |
| 1974 | 47 | #1,868 | 32.0 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,877 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,863 | 15.8 |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,639 | 16.8 |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,744 | 14.9 |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,738 | 14.2 |
| 1968 | 34 | #2,077 | 20.7 |
| 1967 | 46 | #1,694 | 27.9 |
| 1966 | 39 | #1,845 | 23.0 |
| 1965 | 48 | #1,630 | 27.2 |
| 1964 | 46 | #1,719 | 24.3 |
| 1963 | 30 | #2,190 | 15.6 |
| 1962 | 41 | #1,799 | 20.8 |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,225 | 14.4 |
| 1960 | 25 | #2,409 | 12.4 |
| 1959 | 31 | #2,040 | 15.3 |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,049 | 14.9 |
| 1957 | 30 | #2,012 | 14.7 |
| 1956 | 28 | #2,079 | 13.9 |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,861 | 16.9 |
| 1954 | 39 | #1,639 | 20.1 |
| 1953 | 29 | #1,909 | 15.4 |
| 1952 | 29 | #1,872 | 15.6 |
| 1951 | 32 | #1,719 | 17.8 |
| 1950 | 38 | #1,513 | 22.2 |
| 1949 | 28 | #1,828 | 16.4 |
| 1948 | 33 | #1,632 | 19.4 |
| 1947 | 34 | #1,649 | 19.2 |
| 1946 | 27 | #1,751 | 17.2 |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,683 | 19.1 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,774 | 17.3 |
| 1943 | 28 | #1,614 | 20.1 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,738 | 17.8 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,779 | 17.4 |
| 1940 | 30 | #1,393 | 26.2 |
| 1939 | 37 | #1,209 | 33.7 |
| 1938 | 48 | #1,038 | 43.5 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,881 | 16.9 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,783 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,255 | 13.4 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,659 | 10.5 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,619 | 10.9 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,793 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,884 | 6.2 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,555 | 7.2 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,885 | 9.5 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,584 | 5.0 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,972 | 9.3 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,532 | 4.0 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,447 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Loralee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Loralee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 95 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Loralee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Loralee, and how old are they?
1,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 77% of the 1,808 Americans ever recorded as Loralee. The median Loralee alive today is 59 years old; half are between 44 and 71.
The 2020 Census counted 1,695 people named Loralee (1,695 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,468 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 123 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 475 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 421 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 153 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 112 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 109 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Loralee born?
The states with the most babies named Loralee are California, Michigan and Utah, with 79% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 142 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Utah | 16 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Minnesota | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 9 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Loralee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 25,466 babies since 1880, Loralee is the third most given (7.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 854 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Loralee
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Loralee and names like it
- Compare Loralee and LoreleiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sLoralee peaked in 1938.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Loralee since 1910.
- The top names of 1938The year the most babies were named Loralee.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Loralee alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.