Lorelei — #455 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Lorelei

The Social Security Administration has registered 17,482 babies named Lorelei between 1916 and 2024, spanning 109 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lorelei currently holds the #455 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 716 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lorelei performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 6,407 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Lorelei shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,538 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Lorelei in 46 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lorelei in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 17,482 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.