Lorel
Lorel was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 293 Americans have been recorded with it between 1938 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lorel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lorel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,622, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1956, the peak
Lorel peaked in 1956, when 15 girls were given it, #3,126 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #16,622 | 3.1 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,792 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,885 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,612 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,370 | 6.8 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,332 | 2.6 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,978 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,823 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,529 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,052 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 5 | #13,618 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,637 | 3.5 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,915 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,405 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,799 | 3.9 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,743 | 2.9 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,672 | 3.7 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,443 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,189 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,151 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,258 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,090 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,850 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,841 | 5.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,639 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,126 | 7.5 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,488 | 6.1 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,249 | 6.7 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,839 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,257 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,400 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,555 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,932 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,431 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,364 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,378 | 3.2 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,266 | 6.8 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,624 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lorel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 293 Americans recorded as Lorel, 98% are girls and 2% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lorel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lorel, and how old are they?
An estimated 241 Americans named Lorel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 28 and 72. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 425 people named Lorel (375 women and girls, 50 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 252 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Lorel 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,785 babies since 1880, Lorel is the third most given (11% of them).
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 Lorel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1930-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Melodee | 2,722 |
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 Lorel and names like it
- Compare Lorel and LorealBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sLorel peaked in 1956.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lorel since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Lorel.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lorel alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.