Meaning not yet researched.
Lorelai: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 926 in 2025. Its best rank was #333 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Lorelai in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#333 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Lorelai: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 926 girls in 2025. Peak: #333 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 926 (2025).
In 2025, 926 US girls were named Lorelai, making it the 333rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 70 places from #403 in 2024. That is 137 more than the 789 girls named Lorelai in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #333, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 926. For comparison, it was #655 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lorelai in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2001 with 20 babies. In all, 10,253 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,344 babies named Lorelai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,330 US girls were named Lorelai; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 926. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,736 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lorelai ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #101 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 Loralai and Lorilai 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: Loralai (443), Lorilai (18).
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 Lorelai 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 10 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 7 | #101 | — |
| Kentucky | 30 | #150 | #691 |
| Maine | 6 | #194 | — |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #206 | — |
| Mississippi | 13 | #211 | #466 |
| Indiana | 33 | #214 | #558 |
| Tennessee | 36 | #221 | #433 |
| North Dakota | 5 | #226 | — |
| Idaho | 10 | #228 | #417 |
| Nebraska | 10 | #234 | — |
| Oklahoma | 17 | #235 | #454 |
| Missouri | 26 | #246 | #512 |
| West Virginia | 7 | #255 | — |
| Oregon | 15 | #255 | — |
| South Carolina | 20 | #257 | #719 |
| Wisconsin | 20 | #268 | — |
| Ohio | 40 | #277 | #562 |
| Florida | 66 | #287 | #656 |
| Iowa | 12 | #293 | — |
| Virginia | 28 | #306 | #451 |
| Michigan | 28 | #323 | #412 |
| North Carolina | 34 | #327 | #430 |
| Texas | 104 | #329 | #845 |
| Alabama | 15 | #336 | #593 |
| Georgia | 32 | #344 | #1,024 |
| Kansas | 10 | #345 | #439 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #356 | #650 |
| Pennsylvania | 30 | #369 | #529 |
| Illinois | 28 | #373 | #594 |
| Washington | 19 | #381 | #449 |
| Maryland | 14 | #392 | #747 |
| Utah | 11 | #401 | #805 |
| Minnesota | 11 | #485 | #581 |
| Arizona | 14 | #503 | #916 |
| Louisiana | 9 | #519 | #643 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #520 | #479 |
| Colorado | 11 | #523 | #738 |
| New Jersey | 14 | #554 | #1,126 |
| California | 56 | #580 | #994 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #598 | #502 |
| New York | 28 | #601 | #1,253 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 926 | #333 | — | — |
| 2024 | 789 | #403 | — | — |
| 2023 | 651 | #473 | — | — |
| 2022 | 659 | #480 | — | — |
| 2021 | 591 | #522 | — | — |
| 2020 | 574 | #527 | — | — |
| 2019 | 549 | #554 | — | — |
| 2018 | 544 | #568 | — | — |
| 2017 | 568 | #546 | — | — |
| 2016 | 479 | #624 | — | — |
| 2015 | 439 | #655 | — | — |
| 2014 | 338 | #820 | — | — |
| 2013 | 338 | #802 | — | — |
| 2012 | 378 | #736 | — | — |
| 2011 | 340 | #799 | — | — |
| 2010 | 371 | #749 | — | — |
| 2009 | 363 | #780 | — | — |
| 2008 | 312 | #891 | — | — |
| 2007 | 321 | #872 | — | — |
| 2006 | 262 | #995 | — | — |
| 2005 | 187 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 2004 | 99 | #1,901 | — | — |
| 2003 | 87 | #2,055 | — | — |
| 2002 | 68 | #2,368 | — | — |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,729 | — | — |
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).