Loralei
Loralei was given to 65 girls in 2025, #2,673 among girls’ names; 1,811 Americans have been recorded with it since 1940 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,780 Americans named Loralei and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Loralei by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Loralei?
#2,673 among girls’ names, 2025
Loralei fell from #2,271 in 2015 to #2,673 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 46.5 to 40.4 per million.
109 babies in 2011, the peak
Loralei peaked in 2011, when 109 girls were given it, #1,849 among girls’ names. The 65 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | #2,673 | 40.4 |
| 2024 | 57 | #2,911 | 35.2 |
| 2023 | 52 | #3,164 | 32.4 |
| 2022 | 73 | #2,483 | 44.5 |
| 2021 | 72 | #2,474 | 43.9 |
| 2020 | 61 | #2,736 | 37.7 |
| 2019 | 70 | #2,527 | 41.7 |
| 2018 | 78 | #2,353 | 45.9 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,625 | 38.8 |
| 2016 | 65 | #2,684 | 36.7 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 83 | #2,271 | 46.5 |
| 2014 | 86 | #2,208 | 48.1 |
| 2013 | 90 | #2,118 | 51.3 |
| 2012 | 82 | #2,302 | 46.6 |
| 2011 | 109 | #1,849 | 62.0 |
| 2010 | 98 | #2,036 | 55.1 |
| 2009 | 81 | #2,386 | 44.1 |
| 2008 | 57 | #3,045 | 30.1 |
| 2007 | 75 | #2,500 | 39.0 |
| 2006 | 57 | #3,003 | 30.0 |
| 2005 | 53 | #3,036 | 28.7 |
| 2004 | 52 | #3,023 | 28.3 |
| 2003 | 42 | #3,443 | 23.0 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,009 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,832 | 8.9 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,960 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,527 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,111 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,758 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,783 | 2.8 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,262 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,617 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,692 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,687 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,028 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,165 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,599 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,426 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,467 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,571 | 4.1 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,274 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,139 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,142 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,912 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,367 | 4.5 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,837 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,047 | 2.7 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,004 | 3.5 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,746 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Loralei a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Loralei has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Loralei: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Loralei, and how old are they?
1,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,811 Americans ever recorded as Loralei. The median Loralei alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,396 people named Loralei (1,396 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,425 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 44 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 41 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 24 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 757 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 913 |
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 Loralei born?
The states with the most babies named Loralei are Ohio, Alabama and Minnesota, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Alabama and Minnesota are not among the ten states with the most births.
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 Loralei 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 34,982 babies since 1880, Loralei is the third most given (5.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 65 of their 1,764 babies (3.7%), again the third most given.
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 Loralei
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 Loralei and names like it
- Compare Loralei and LoreleiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLoralei peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Loralei since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Loralei.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Loralei alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.