Lorelee
Lorelee was last recorded in 1975, when 5 babies were given it; 160 Americans have been recorded with it between 1938 and 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lorelee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lorelee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,916, in 1975; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1954, the peak
Lorelee peaked in 1954, when 13 girls were given it, #3,250 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 5 | #9,916 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,271 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,673 | 3.7 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,097 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,097 | 4.5 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,603 | 3.6 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,091 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,934 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,195 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,748 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 5 | #6,492 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,342 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,250 | 6.7 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,858 | 5.3 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,762 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,071 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,755 | 2.8 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,949 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,059 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,393 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,216 | 5.0 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,629 | 6.4 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,333 | 7.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lorelee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lorelee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lorelee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lorelee, and how old are they?
An estimated 117 Americans named Lorelee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (73% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 61 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 203 people named Lorelee (203 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 130 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Lorelee?
Lorelee is a less common spelling of Loreli: SSA has recorded 160 Lorelee and 662 Loreli since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 35,010 babies since 1880, Lorelee is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,732 babies recorded by SSA was a Lorelee (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 Lorelee
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 Lorelee and names like it
- Compare Lorelee and LoreliBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sLorelee peaked in 1954.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Lorelee.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lorelee alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.