Lore
Lore was last recorded in 2024, when 10 babies were given it; 1,118 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lore by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lore mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Lore is “a diminutive of the female given names Eleonore and Hannelore”
Contraction of Eleonore; see English Eleanor for more.
Clipping of Hannelore
/ˈloːʁə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lore?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,965, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
56 babies in 1961, the peak
Lore peaked in 1961, when 56 girls were given it, #1,508 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10 | #9,965 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,824 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,602 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,527 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,022 | 3.0 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,881 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,080 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,781 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,709 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,168 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 11 | #6,570 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,167 | 4.7 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,824 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,236 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,919 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,822 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,127 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,477 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,212 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,129 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,783 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,792 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,884 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,878 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,478 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,225 | 8.4 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,653 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,710 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,925 | 12.2 |
| 1967 | 31 | #2,151 | 18.8 |
| 1966 | 31 | #2,131 | 18.3 |
| 1965 | 26 | #2,379 | 14.7 |
| 1964 | 43 | #1,791 | 22.7 |
| 1963 | 50 | #1,610 | 25.9 |
| 1962 | 50 | #1,601 | 25.4 |
| 1961 | 56 | #1,508 | 27.7 |
| 1960 | 53 | #1,532 | 26.2 |
| 1959 | 51 | #1,528 | 25.2 |
| 1958 | 48 | #1,549 | 23.9 |
| 1957 | 42 | #1,669 | 20.5 |
| 1956 | 28 | #2,080 | 13.9 |
| 1955 | 36 | #1,759 | 18.4 |
| 1954 | 27 | #2,054 | 13.9 |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,472 | 10.1 |
| 1952 | 21 | #2,301 | 11.3 |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,031 | 7.2 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,342 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,682 | 8.8 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,490 | 5.9 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,343 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,281 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,326 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,476 | 4.3 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,215 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,748 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,627 | 6.4 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,844 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,631 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,578 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,058 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,335 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,792 | 9.9 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,770 | 6.6 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,372 | 12.2 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,216 | 8.0 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,887 | 6.3 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,619 | 6.9 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,585 | 5.0 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,103 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,249 | 5.8 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,533 | 4.0 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,699 | 5.0 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,253 | 4.3 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,663 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lore a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lore has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lore: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lore, and how old are they?
An estimated 851 Americans named Lore and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 55 and 68. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,658 people named Lore (1,576 women and girls, 82 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 886 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Lore 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 449,885 babies since 1880, Lore is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 191 babies recorded by SSA was a Lore (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Lore
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 Lore and names like it
- Compare Lore and LoriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLore peaked in 1961.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lore since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Lore: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Lore.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lore alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.