Lorita
Lorita was last recorded in 1992, when 6 babies were given it; 1,748 Americans have been recorded with it between 1902 and 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,020 Americans named Lorita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (58% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 57 and 76.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lorita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lorita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,670, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
43 babies in 1944, the peak
Lorita peaked in 1944, when 43 girls were given it, #1,213 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 6 | #12,670 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,448 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,888 | 3.7 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,887 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,431 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,288 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,142 | 5.3 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,394 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,608 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,573 | 6.0 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 14 | #4,974 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,573 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,389 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,786 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,863 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,174 | 15.0 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,568 | 12.3 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,643 | 11.2 |
| 1971 | 31 | #2,451 | 18.6 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,824 | 14.3 |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,553 | 16.0 |
| 1968 | 26 | #2,462 | 15.8 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,603 | 13.9 |
| 1966 | 40 | #1,812 | 23.6 |
| 1965 | 29 | #2,228 | 16.4 |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,717 | 11.6 |
| 1963 | 38 | #1,906 | 19.7 |
| 1962 | 34 | #2,009 | 17.3 |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,336 | 13.4 |
| 1960 | 40 | #1,804 | 19.8 |
| 1959 | 26 | #2,266 | 12.8 |
| 1958 | 37 | #1,803 | 18.4 |
| 1957 | 39 | #1,737 | 19.1 |
| 1956 | 32 | #1,914 | 15.9 |
| 1955 | 40 | #1,627 | 20.5 |
| 1954 | 34 | #1,789 | 17.5 |
| 1953 | 30 | #1,849 | 15.9 |
| 1952 | 42 | #1,495 | 22.6 |
| 1951 | 28 | #1,863 | 15.5 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,980 | 14.0 |
| 1949 | 43 | #1,415 | 25.1 |
| 1948 | 27 | #1,839 | 15.9 |
| 1947 | 24 | #2,022 | 13.5 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,894 | 15.3 |
| 1945 | 29 | #1,532 | 22.2 |
| 1944 | 43 | #1,213 | 32.4 |
| 1943 | 31 | #1,509 | 22.2 |
| 1942 | 27 | #1,613 | 20.0 |
| 1941 | 28 | #1,489 | 23.2 |
| 1940 | 34 | #1,284 | 29.7 |
| 1939 | 26 | #1,498 | 23.7 |
| 1938 | 31 | #1,329 | 28.1 |
| 1937 | 37 | #1,189 | 34.8 |
| 1936 | 21 | #1,667 | 20.2 |
| 1935 | 38 | #1,151 | 36.2 |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,582 | 22.0 |
| 1933 | 25 | #1,500 | 24.8 |
| 1932 | 31 | #1,336 | 29.0 |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,530 | 23.5 |
| 1930 | 30 | #1,420 | 26.6 |
| 1929 | 26 | #1,543 | 23.3 |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,526 | 24.3 |
| 1927 | 19 | #2,074 | 15.9 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,974 | 9.3 |
| 1925 | 22 | #1,872 | 18.1 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,545 | 7.2 |
| 1923 | 18 | #2,131 | 14.9 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,539 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,444 | 12.2 |
| 1920 | 11 | #3,011 | 9.2 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,742 | 10.6 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,600 | 11.2 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,493 | 12.0 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,750 | 10.5 |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,198 | 14.2 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,621 | 12.6 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,514 | 26.7 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,932 | 18.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lorita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lorita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 78 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lorita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lorita, and how old are they?
1,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 58% of the 1,748 Americans ever recorded as Lorita. The median Lorita alive today is 66 years old; half are between 57 and 76.
The 2020 Census counted 1,242 people named Lorita (1,242 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,176 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 163 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 476 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 312 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 69 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Lorita born?
The states with the most babies named Lorita are Louisiana, California and Illinois, with 84% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 121 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| California | 45 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 39 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Lorita is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lorita is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 3.2 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 Lorita with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 181,039 babies since 1880, Lorita is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 485 babies recorded by SSA was a Lorita (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 Lorita
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 Lorita and names like it
- Compare Lorita and LorettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sLorita peaked in 1944.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lorita since 1910.
- The top names of 1944The year the most babies were named Lorita.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lorita alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.