Loreta
Loreta was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 1,225 Americans have been recorded with it between 1900 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Loreta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Loreta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,710, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
36 babies in 1916, the peak
Loreta peaked in 1916, when 36 girls were given it, #1,203 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #16,710 | 3.0 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,765 | 3.4 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,302 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,732 | 3.1 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,704 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,289 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,670 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,878 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,673 | 3.4 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,238 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 6 | #9,921 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,818 | 3.6 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,987 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,230 | 6.2 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,984 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,030 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,351 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,938 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,121 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,428 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,571 | 8.5 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,706 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,098 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,445 | 7.9 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,926 | 6.2 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,407 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,602 | 6.4 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,935 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,474 | 6.5 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,784 | 8.8 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,597 | 6.0 |
| 1955 | 19 | #2,595 | 9.7 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,417 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,029 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,995 | 7.5 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,877 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,156 | 7.0 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,934 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 19 | #2,294 | 11.2 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,705 | 8.5 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,344 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,544 | 9.9 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,577 | 9.8 |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,398 | 10.8 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,158 | 12.6 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,324 | 11.6 |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,163 | 13.1 |
| 1939 | 23 | #1,618 | 21.0 |
| 1938 | 20 | #1,781 | 18.1 |
| 1937 | 31 | #1,320 | 29.1 |
| 1936 | 23 | #1,573 | 22.1 |
| 1935 | 25 | #1,497 | 23.8 |
| 1934 | 35 | #1,213 | 33.5 |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,580 | 22.8 |
| 1932 | 35 | #1,228 | 32.8 |
| 1931 | 27 | #1,442 | 25.4 |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,074 | 15.1 |
| 1929 | 27 | #1,505 | 24.2 |
| 1928 | 26 | #1,620 | 22.5 |
| 1927 | 29 | #1,540 | 24.3 |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,567 | 23.6 |
| 1925 | 31 | #1,487 | 25.5 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,373 | 12.8 |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,805 | 19.1 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,552 | 11.7 |
| 1921 | 31 | #1,500 | 25.1 |
| 1920 | 32 | #1,426 | 26.7 |
| 1919 | 25 | #1,631 | 22.1 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,783 | 19.0 |
| 1917 | 26 | #1,489 | 24.0 |
| 1916 | 36 | #1,203 | 34.5 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,322 | 13.2 |
| 1914 | 21 | #1,414 | 27.6 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,971 | 17.6 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,062 | 16.1 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,608 | 23.9 |
| 1910 | 13 | #1,304 | 32.8 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,301 | 15.0 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,854 | 20.3 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,102 | 17.1 |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,430 | 29.1 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,580 | 25.1 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,847 | 20.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Loreta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Loreta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 83 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Loreta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Loreta, and how old are they?
An estimated 441 Americans named Loreta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (36% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 56 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,011 people named Loreta (2,007 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 545 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.7 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).
Where are babies named Loreta born?
The states with the most babies named Loreta are Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri, with 98% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma and Missouri are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 137 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Oklahoma | 84 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| Missouri | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arkansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Loreta is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Loreta is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 2.0 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 Loreta with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Loreta?
Loreta is a less common spelling of Loretta: SSA has recorded 1,225 Loreta and 178,066 Loretta since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 186,032 babies since 1880, Loreta is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 485 babies recorded by SSA was a Loreta (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 Loreta
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 Loreta and names like it
- Compare Loreta and LorettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sLoreta peaked in 1916.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Loreta since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Loreta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Loreta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.