Lorelie
Lorelie was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 416 Americans have been recorded with it between 1928 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 Lorelie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lorelie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,700, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 2009, the peak
Lorelie peaked in 2009, when 14 girls were given it, #8,711 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,700 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,348 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,728 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,861 | 8.5 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,985 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,135 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,458 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,886 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,747 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,093 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 10 | #10,860 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,025 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,711 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,301 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,403 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,325 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,869 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,246 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,288 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,603 | 6.7 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,600 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,052 | 7.5 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,745 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,118 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,468 | 3.6 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,369 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,360 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,645 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,260 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,620 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,067 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,196 | 3.5 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,677 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,002 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,944 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,381 | 6.4 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,478 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,401 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,832 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,517 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,006 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,583 | 3.9 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,242 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,914 | 5.3 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,060 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,113 | 7.4 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,801 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,383 | 7.0 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,298 | 7.3 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,074 | 8.2 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,944 | 4.4 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,119 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lorelie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lorelie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lorelie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lorelie, and how old are they?
An estimated 339 Americans named Lorelie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 15 and 71. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 718 people named Lorelie (716 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 326 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 34,117 babies since 1880, Lorelie is the eighth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,682 babies recorded by SSA was a Lorelie (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.
More about Lorelie and names like it
- Compare Lorelie and LoreleiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLorelie peaked in 2009.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lorelie since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Lorelie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lorelie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.