Meaning not yet researched.
Lorelei: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 699 in 2025. Its best rank was #441 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 Lorelei in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#441 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Lorelei: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 699 girls in 2025. Peak: #441 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 716 (2016).
In 2025, 699 US girls were named Lorelei, making it the 441st most common girls’ name of the year, up 13 places from #454 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 690 girls named Lorelei in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #441, reached in this year, 2025. The most girls given the name in a single year was 716, in 2016. For comparison, it was #450 in 2015 and #1,016 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lorelei in 105 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 5 babies. In all, 18,189 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,407 babies named Lorelei.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,777 US girls were named Lorelei; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 716. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,299 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lorelei ranked highest in Oregon in 2025, at #234 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lorelai (10,253 babies since 1880), Lurline (1,885 babies since 1880) and Loralei (1,811 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Loralee, Lorilee and Loreli are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Laurie, Lori and Lorrie.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Loralee (1,808), Lorilee (858), Loreli (662), Lorali (426), Lorelie (416), Lorilei (270), Lorely (203), Lorelee (160), Lurleen (126), Loreley (124), Loralea (10), Lorilea (10), and more.
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 16 | #234 | #502 |
| Minnesota | 23 | #246 | #729 |
| Tennessee | 32 | #248 | #376 |
| West Virginia | 7 | #256 | — |
| Missouri | 23 | #272 | #369 |
| Ohio | 41 | #273 | #341 |
| Nebraska | 8 | #279 | #271 |
| Kentucky | 16 | #281 | #274 |
| Iowa | 12 | #294 | #393 |
| Oklahoma | 14 | #304 | #347 |
| Alabama | 16 | #310 | #532 |
| Arkansas | 10 | #325 | #651 |
| Colorado | 19 | #330 | #392 |
| Idaho | 7 | #332 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 32 | #342 | #452 |
| Wisconsin | 15 | #354 | #361 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #357 | — |
| Indiana | 19 | #372 | #499 |
| Michigan | 23 | #382 | #518 |
| Nevada | 7 | #405 | — |
| South Carolina | 12 | #430 | #380 |
| Illinois | 25 | #430 | #328 |
| Kansas | 8 | #430 | #440 |
| Washington | 16 | #439 | #582 |
| Florida | 39 | #477 | #498 |
| Virginia | 17 | #478 | #258 |
| North Carolina | 23 | #480 | #317 |
| Texas | 66 | #491 | #553 |
| Georgia | 23 | #502 | #545 |
| Louisiana | 9 | #520 | #475 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #599 | — |
| Maryland | 8 | #627 | #350 |
| New Jersey | 11 | #694 | #491 |
| California | 36 | #821 | #624 |
| Arizona | 7 | #875 | #420 |
| New York | 14 | #1,065 | #555 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 699 | #441 | — | — |
| 2024 | 690 | #454 | — | — |
| 2023 | 631 | #485 | — | — |
| 2022 | 715 | #442 | — | — |
| 2021 | 701 | #447 | — | — |
| 2020 | 601 | #504 | — | — |
| 2019 | 682 | #456 | — | — |
| 2018 | 659 | #472 | — | — |
| 2017 | 683 | #462 | — | — |
| 2016 | 716 | #451 | — | — |
| 2015 | 704 | #450 | — | — |
| 2014 | 653 | #482 | — | — |
| 2013 | 604 | #497 | — | — |
| 2012 | 573 | #529 | — | — |
| 2011 | 585 | #503 | — | — |
| 2010 | 548 | #535 | — | — |
| 2009 | 504 | #597 | — | — |
| 2008 | 446 | #681 | — | — |
| 2007 | 431 | #683 | — | — |
| 2006 | 380 | #736 | — | — |
| 2005 | 320 | #810 | — | — |
| 2004 | 248 | #967 | — | — |
| 2003 | 226 | #1,021 | — | — |
| 2002 | 202 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 2001 | 99 | #1,803 | — | — |
| 2000 | 63 | #2,447 | — | — |
| 1999 | 44 | #3,025 | — | — |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,537 | — | — |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,073 | — | — |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,065 | — | — |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,297 | — | — |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,662 | — | — |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,970 | — | — |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,952 | — | — |
| 1991 | 44 | #2,719 | — | — |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,832 | — | — |
| 1989 | 31 | #3,366 | — | — |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,969 | — | — |
| 1987 | 32 | #3,000 | — | — |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,449 | — | — |
| 1985 | 54 | #2,010 | — | — |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,249 | — | — |
| 1983 | 41 | #2,338 | — | — |
| 1982 | 54 | #1,957 | — | — |
| 1981 | 56 | #1,926 | — | — |
| 1980 | 53 | #1,995 | — | — |
| 1979 | 68 | #1,654 | — | — |
| 1978 | 77 | #1,481 | — | — |
| 1977 | 64 | #1,645 | — | — |
| 1976 | 71 | #1,471 | — | — |
| 1975 | 63 | #1,581 | — | — |
| 1974 | 62 | #1,559 | — | — |
| 1973 | 48 | #1,795 | — | — |
| 1972 | 52 | #1,710 | — | — |
| 1971 | 53 | #1,719 | — | — |
| 1970 | 75 | #1,399 | — | — |
| 1969 | 86 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 1968 | 73 | #1,295 | — | — |
| 1967 | 97 | #1,051 | — | — |
| 1966 | 102 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 1965 | 113 | #971 | — | — |
| 1964 | 97 | #1,115 | — | — |
| 1963 | 117 | #987 | — | — |
| 1962 | 109 | #1,036 | — | — |
| 1961 | 111 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 1960 | 115 | #1,004 | — | — |
| 1959 | 110 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 1958 | 114 | #972 | — | — |
| 1957 | 142 | #853 | — | — |
| 1956 | 137 | #848 | — | — |
| 1955 | 143 | #810 | — | — |
| 1954 | 176 | #700 | — | — |
| 1953 | 141 | #774 | — | — |
| 1952 | 114 | #865 | — | — |
| 1951 | 111 | #854 | — | — |
| 1950 | 81 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 1949 | 69 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 1948 | 67 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 1947 | 59 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 1946 | 44 | #1,314 | — | — |
| 1945 | 48 | #1,136 | — | — |
| 1944 | 38 | #1,299 | — | — |
| 1943 | 43 | #1,240 | — | — |
| 1942 | 79 | #870 | — | — |
| 1941 | 82 | #800 | — | — |
| 1940 | 58 | #951 | — | — |
| 1939 | 83 | #758 | — | — |
| 1938 | 121 | #619 | — | — |
| 1937 | 26 | #1,480 | — | — |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,617 | — | — |
| 1935 | 15 | #2,162 | — | — |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,811 | — | — |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,881 | — | — |
| 1932 | 17 | #2,003 | — | — |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,991 | — | — |
| 1930 | 27 | #1,515 | — | — |
| 1929 | 36 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 1928 | 56 | #1,004 | — | — |
| 1927 | 18 | #2,138 | — | — |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,309 | — | — |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,251 | — | — |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,774 | — | — |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,294 | — | — |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,426 | — | — |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,842 | — | — |
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).