Loralie
Loralie was given to 24 girls in 2025, #5,331 among girls’ names; 958 Americans have been recorded with it since 1925 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Loralie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Loralie?
#5,331 among girls’ names, 2025
Loralie fell from #4,668 in 2015 to #5,331 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.8 to 14.9 per million.
42 babies in 2012, the peak
Loralie peaked in 2012, when 42 girls were given it, #3,760 among girls’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,331 | 14.9 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,229 | 15.4 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,483 | 14.3 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,364 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,860 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,954 | 16.1 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,391 | 14.3 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,550 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,426 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,094 | 11.9 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,668 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,415 | 18.5 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,235 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,760 | 23.8 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,302 | 14.8 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,261 | 19.7 |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,013 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,519 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,892 | 15.6 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,527 | 16.8 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,701 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,029 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,071 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,602 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,598 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,693 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,406 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,889 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,121 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,786 | 3.6 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,790 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,128 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,358 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,739 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,027 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,089 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,300 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,349 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,104 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,750 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,902 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,185 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,714 | 12.4 |
| 1965 | 24 | #2,505 | 13.6 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,234 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,154 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,601 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,619 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,995 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,489 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,740 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,787 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,337 | 4.5 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,000 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,480 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,856 | 5.3 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,874 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,341 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,482 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,005 | 3.5 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,311 | 4.6 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,475 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,391 | 4.4 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,381 | 7.0 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,051 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,073 | 8.2 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,445 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Loralie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Loralie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 67 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Loralie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Loralie, and how old are they?
An estimated 885 Americans named Loralie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 53. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 846 people named Loralie (846 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 781 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,939 babies since 1880, Loralie is the fourth most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 170 babies (14%), the third 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 Loralie
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 Loralie and names like it
- Compare Loralie and LoraleiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Loralie.
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