Lorretta
Lorretta was last recorded in 2000, when 5 babies were given it; 2,708 Americans have been recorded with it between 1893 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,510 Americans named Lorretta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (56% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 56 and 75.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lorretta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lorretta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,508, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
62 babies in 1957, the peak
Lorretta peaked in 1957, when 62 girls were given it, #1,350 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 5 | #16,508 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,479 | 5.2 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,685 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,790 | 2.8 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,921 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,447 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,175 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,110 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,468 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,883 | 7.0 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 16 | #4,632 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,486 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,498 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,826 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,417 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,334 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,078 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,847 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,489 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,219 | 15.1 |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,653 | 19.1 |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,205 | 24.7 |
| 1972 | 36 | #2,160 | 23.7 |
| 1971 | 48 | #1,840 | 28.8 |
| 1970 | 38 | #2,142 | 21.7 |
| 1969 | 45 | #1,862 | 26.7 |
| 1968 | 49 | #1,665 | 29.9 |
| 1967 | 43 | #1,774 | 26.0 |
| 1966 | 51 | #1,581 | 30.1 |
| 1965 | 44 | #1,706 | 24.9 |
| 1964 | 49 | #1,654 | 25.9 |
| 1963 | 36 | #1,968 | 18.7 |
| 1962 | 62 | #1,413 | 31.5 |
| 1961 | 51 | #1,588 | 25.3 |
| 1960 | 54 | #1,512 | 26.7 |
| 1959 | 62 | #1,366 | 30.6 |
| 1958 | 47 | #1,566 | 23.4 |
| 1957 | 62 | #1,350 | 30.3 |
| 1956 | 58 | #1,371 | 28.9 |
| 1955 | 45 | #1,526 | 23.0 |
| 1954 | 48 | #1,451 | 24.7 |
| 1953 | 44 | #1,479 | 23.4 |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,699 | 18.3 |
| 1951 | 38 | #1,542 | 21.1 |
| 1950 | 41 | #1,440 | 23.9 |
| 1949 | 49 | #1,313 | 28.6 |
| 1948 | 43 | #1,418 | 25.3 |
| 1947 | 45 | #1,386 | 25.4 |
| 1946 | 41 | #1,367 | 26.1 |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,467 | 23.7 |
| 1944 | 36 | #1,352 | 27.1 |
| 1943 | 30 | #1,545 | 21.5 |
| 1942 | 44 | #1,200 | 32.6 |
| 1941 | 43 | #1,144 | 35.6 |
| 1940 | 49 | #1,032 | 42.8 |
| 1939 | 50 | #1,004 | 45.6 |
| 1938 | 44 | #1,084 | 39.9 |
| 1937 | 41 | #1,125 | 38.5 |
| 1936 | 38 | #1,157 | 36.5 |
| 1935 | 36 | #1,192 | 34.3 |
| 1934 | 42 | #1,091 | 40.2 |
| 1933 | 40 | #1,115 | 39.7 |
| 1932 | 37 | #1,185 | 34.7 |
| 1931 | 39 | #1,157 | 36.6 |
| 1930 | 24 | #1,639 | 21.3 |
| 1929 | 27 | #1,506 | 24.2 |
| 1928 | 27 | #1,569 | 23.4 |
| 1927 | 37 | #1,319 | 31.0 |
| 1926 | 31 | #1,468 | 26.2 |
| 1925 | 40 | #1,239 | 32.9 |
| 1924 | 36 | #1,372 | 28.8 |
| 1923 | 38 | #1,276 | 31.5 |
| 1922 | 29 | #1,554 | 24.1 |
| 1921 | 30 | #1,528 | 24.3 |
| 1920 | 33 | #1,392 | 27.5 |
| 1919 | 26 | #1,588 | 23.0 |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,668 | 20.7 |
| 1917 | 23 | #1,628 | 21.3 |
| 1916 | 31 | #1,321 | 29.7 |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,845 | 18.3 |
| 1914 | 21 | #1,415 | 27.6 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,684 | 11.2 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,676 | 21.5 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,352 | 14.3 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,038 | 17.7 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,106 | 16.9 |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,366 | 30.9 |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,040 | 18.2 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,950 | 19.1 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,512 | 26.7 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,555 | 23.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lorretta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lorretta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 91 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lorretta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lorretta, and how old are they?
1,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 56% of the 2,708 Americans ever recorded as Lorretta. The median Lorretta alive today is 65 years old; half are between 56 and 75.
The 2020 Census counted 1,470 people named Lorretta (1,470 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,729 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 208 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 710 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 474 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 102 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 14 |
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 Lorretta born?
The states with the most babies named Lorretta are California, Illinois and Michigan, with 69% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 136 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 111 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 27 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 25 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 21 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 21 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Mexico | 6 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Colorado | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Lorretta 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 Lorretta?
Lorretta is a less common spelling of Loretta: SSA has recorded 2,708 Lorretta and 178,066 Loretta since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 184,284 babies since 1880, Lorretta is the second most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 485 babies recorded by SSA was a Lorretta (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 Lorretta
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 Lorretta and names like it
- Compare Lorretta and LorettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sLorretta peaked in 1957.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lorretta since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Lorretta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lorretta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.