Loretto
Loretto was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 933 Americans have been recorded with it between 1882 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 Loretto by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Loretto?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #4,823, in 1964; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 1915, the peak
Loretto peaked in 1915, when 28 girls were given it, #1,357 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 9 | #4,823 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,605 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,260 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,998 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,356 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,313 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,792 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,339 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,692 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,150 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 8 | #4,224 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,764 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,491 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,891 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,243 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,316 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,916 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,061 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,744 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 15 | #2,230 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,140 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,509 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,261 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,997 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,603 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,057 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,620 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,453 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,703 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,323 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,889 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,887 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,975 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,759 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 18 | #2,156 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,753 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,834 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 23 | #1,817 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 27 | #1,652 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 19 | #2,041 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,121 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,928 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,059 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,722 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 28 | #1,357 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,636 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 22 | #1,205 | 0.04 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,512 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 15 | #1,211 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,477 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,110 | 0.02 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,770 | 0.02 |
| 1907 | 14 | #1,068 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 9 | #1,382 | 0.03 |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,218 | 0.04 |
| 1904 | 17 | #899 | 0.06 |
| 1903 | 12 | #1,060 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 16 | #890 | 0.06 |
| 1901 | 13 | #944 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 17 | #932 | 0.06 |
| 1899 | 20 | #719 | 0.09 |
| 1898 | 15 | #905 | 0.06 |
| 1897 | 17 | #774 | 0.07 |
| 1896 | 18 | #776 | 0.08 |
| 1895 | 14 | #880 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 15 | #805 | 0.07 |
| 1893 | 19 | #676 | 0.09 |
| 1892 | 13 | #850 | 0.06 |
| 1891 | 20 | #604 | 0.11 |
| 1890 | 10 | #908 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 8 | #997 | 0.04 |
| 1888 | 10 | #872 | 0.06 |
| 1887 | 10 | #771 | 0.07 |
| 1886 | 8 | #868 | 0.06 |
| 1885 | 10 | #722 | 0.08 |
| 1884 | 8 | #825 | 0.06 |
| 1882 | 7 | #780 | 0.06 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Loretto a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 933 Americans recorded as Loretto, 99% are girls and 1% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Loretto: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Loretto, and how old are they?
An estimated 153 Americans named Loretto and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (16% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 67 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 386 people named Loretto (289 women and girls, 97 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 193 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 184,284 babies since 1880, Loretto is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 485 babies recorded by SSA was a Loretto (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 Loretto
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 Loretto and names like it
- Compare Loretto and LorettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sLoretto peaked in 1915.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Loretto since 1910.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Loretto.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Loretto alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.