Lorelai
Lorelai was given to 926 girls in 2025, #333 among girls’ names; 10,253 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,200 Americans named Lorelai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lorelai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lorelai mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lorelai is “a female given name from German.”
Re-spelling of Lorelei.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lorelai?
#333 among girls’ names, 2025
Lorelai rose from #655 in 2015 to #333 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.25 to 0.58 per 1,000.
926 babies in 2025, the peak
Lorelai peaked in 2025, when 926 girls were given it, #333 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 789 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 926 | #333 | 0.58 |
| 2024 | 789 | #403 | 0.49 |
| 2023 | 651 | #473 | 0.41 |
| 2022 | 659 | #480 | 0.40 |
| 2021 | 591 | #522 | 0.36 |
| 2020 | 574 | #527 | 0.36 |
| 2019 | 549 | #554 | 0.33 |
| 2018 | 544 | #568 | 0.32 |
| 2017 | 568 | #546 | 0.33 |
| 2016 | 479 | #624 | 0.27 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 439 | #655 | 0.25 |
| 2014 | 338 | #820 | 0.19 |
| 2013 | 338 | #802 | 0.19 |
| 2012 | 378 | #736 | 0.21 |
| 2011 | 340 | #799 | 0.19 |
| 2010 | 371 | #749 | 0.21 |
| 2009 | 363 | #780 | 0.20 |
| 2008 | 312 | #891 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 321 | #872 | 0.17 |
| 2006 | 262 | #995 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 187 | #1,221 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 99 | #1,900 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 87 | #2,053 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 68 | #2,365 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,724 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lorelai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lorelai has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lorelai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lorelai, and how old are they?
10,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 10,253 Americans ever recorded as Lorelai. The median Lorelai alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 5,565 people named Lorelai (5,556 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,167 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,780 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,400 |
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 Lorelai born?
The states with the most babies named Lorelai are Texas, Florida and California, with 25% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 104 | #329 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 66 | #287 | 1.0× |
| California | 56 | #580 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 40 | #277 | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 36 | #221 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 34 | #327 | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 33 | #214 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 32 | #344 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 30 | #369 | 1.0× |
| Kentucky | 30 | #150 | 1.1× |
Where Lorelai is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lorelai is most over-represented in Indiana: since 2001 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Lorelai 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 33,173 babies since 1880, Lorelai is the second most given (31% of them). In 2025 it was given to 926 of their 1,763 babies (53%), the 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 Lorelai
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 Lorelai and names like it
- Compare Lorelai and LoreleiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLorelai peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lorelai since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Lorelai: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Lorelai.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lorelai alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.