Lorelle
Lorelle was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,834 among girls’ names; 973 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lorelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lorelle?
#9,834 among girls’ names, 2025
Lorelle fell from #8,734 in 2015 to #9,834 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.3 to 6.2 per million.
20 babies in 1979, the peak
Lorelle peaked in 1979, when 20 girls were given it, #3,848 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,834 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,749 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,623 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,729 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,531 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,024 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,054 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,111 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,195 | 6.8 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,734 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (102)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 9 | #11,542 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,849 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,458 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,885 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,130 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,020 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,307 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,056 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,637 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,605 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,427 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,213 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,796 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,672 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,773 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,380 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,384 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,122 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,760 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,130 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,885 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,446 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,247 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,445 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,115 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,981 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,465 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,742 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,825 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,725 | 4.8 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,645 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,932 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,848 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,350 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,715 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,838 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,018 | 8.2 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,344 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,394 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,667 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,334 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,387 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,080 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,970 | 4.3 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,853 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,090 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,967 | 10.0 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,114 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,261 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,261 | 7.9 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,159 | 7.9 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,185 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,312 | 7.0 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,828 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,670 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,691 | 5.6 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,653 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,101 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,994 | 7.5 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,876 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,979 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,933 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,433 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,197 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,550 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,314 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,915 | 5.3 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,969 | 7.9 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,218 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,139 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,053 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,075 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,632 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,456 | 11.5 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,845 | 9.5 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,055 | 8.6 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,014 | 8.9 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,452 | 7.5 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,702 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,517 | 7.1 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,983 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,121 | 4.3 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,105 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,884 | 6.6 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,794 | 4.8 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,724 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,560 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,806 | 6.7 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,652 | 7.1 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,382 | 5.5 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,841 | 4.8 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,665 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lorelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lorelle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 102 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lorelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lorelle, and how old are they?
An estimated 752 Americans named Lorelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 24 and 63. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 756 people named Lorelle (751 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 763 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
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 34,143 babies since 1880, Lorelle is the fourth most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 1,691 babies (<1%), the fifth 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 Lorelle
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 Lorelle and names like it
- Compare Lorelle and LoreleiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLorelle peaked in 1979.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lorelle since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Lorelle.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lorelle alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.