Lorretta — girls' name

What the Data Says About Lorretta

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,708 babies named Lorretta between 1893 and 2000, spanning 108 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lorretta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2000. The name reached its historical peak in 1957, when 62 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lorretta performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 484 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Lorretta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 136 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Lorretta in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lorretta in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,708 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.