Meaning not yet researched.
Loralei: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 65 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,849 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,849 in 2011; #2,673 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Loralei in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,673 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #1,849.
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Loralei: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 65 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,849 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 109 (2011).
In 2025, 65 US girls were named Loralei, making it the 2,673rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 238 places from #2,911 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 57 girls named Loralei in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,849, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 109. For comparison, it was #2,271 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Loralei in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1940 with 5 babies. In all, 1,811 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 828 babies named Loralei.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 660 US girls were named Loralei; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 78. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Loralei ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #896 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lorelei (18,189 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Loralie, Loralye and Loraleigh are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Loralie (958), Loralye (260), Loraleigh (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Loralei in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 5 | #896 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #936 | — |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,094 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | #2,673 | — | — |
| 2024 | 57 | #2,911 | — | — |
| 2023 | 52 | #3,164 | — | — |
| 2022 | 73 | #2,483 | — | — |
| 2021 | 72 | #2,474 | — | — |
| 2020 | 61 | #2,736 | — | — |
| 2019 | 70 | #2,527 | — | — |
| 2018 | 78 | #2,353 | — | — |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,625 | — | — |
| 2016 | 65 | #2,684 | — | — |
| 2015 | 83 | #2,271 | — | — |
| 2014 | 86 | #2,208 | — | — |
| 2013 | 90 | #2,118 | — | — |
| 2012 | 82 | #2,302 | — | — |
| 2011 | 109 | #1,849 | — | — |
| 2010 | 98 | #2,036 | — | — |
| 2009 | 81 | #2,387 | — | — |
| 2008 | 57 | #3,046 | — | — |
| 2007 | 75 | #2,500 | — | — |
| 2006 | 57 | #3,004 | — | — |
| 2005 | 53 | #3,040 | — | — |
| 2004 | 52 | #3,027 | — | — |
| 2003 | 42 | #3,447 | — | — |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,013 | — | — |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,837 | — | — |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,967 | — | — |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,534 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,117 | — | — |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,764 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,789 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,269 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,624 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,697 | — | — |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,689 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,030 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,167 | — | — |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,601 | — | — |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,427 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,468 | — | — |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,572 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,275 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,140 | — | — |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,143 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,913 | — | — |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,368 | — | — |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,838 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,049 | — | — |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,005 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,748 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).