Meaning not yet researched.
Loretta: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 485 in 2025. Its best rank was #62 in 1938.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #62 in 1938; #606 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Loretta in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#606 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1938, at #62.
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Loretta: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 485 girls in 2025. Peak: #62 in 1938 · most girls in one year: 3,913 (1938).
In 2025, 485 US girls were named Loretta, making it the 606th most common girls’ name of the year, up 71 places from #677 in 2024. That is 62 more than the 423 girls named Loretta in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #62, reached in 1938. That year also had the most girls given the name: 3,913. For comparison, it was #1,154 in 2015 and #120 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Loretta in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 41 babies with the name. In all, 178,066 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1930s, with 31,682 babies named Loretta.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,150 US girls were named Loretta; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 485. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,314 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Loretta ranked highest in Wisconsin in 2025, at #131 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lora (52,484 babies since 1880) and Lorretta (2,708 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Loretha, Lorita and Loreta are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Etta, Lorie, Lorrie and Retta.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Loretha (1,792), Lorita (1,748), Loreta (1,225), Lorette (1,096), Luretha (502), Luretta (341), Loletta (256), Louretta (256), Loreatha (60), Loritta (23), Lorrita (16), Loreita (15), 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 18 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 41 | #131 | #502 |
| Iowa | 18 | #178 | — |
| Minnesota | 29 | #190 | #730 |
| North Dakota | 5 | #227 | — |
| South Dakota | 5 | #257 | — |
| Idaho | 7 | #333 | — |
| Indiana | 21 | #340 | #661 |
| Missouri | 16 | #381 | #1,072 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #409 | — |
| Ohio | 25 | #457 | #1,598 |
| Washington | 15 | #472 | #1,046 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #478 | — |
| Colorado | 11 | #524 | — |
| Tennessee | 14 | #552 | #1,022 |
| North Carolina | 19 | #571 | #1,515 |
| Michigan | 14 | #578 | #1,080 |
| Illinois | 16 | #609 | #1,813 |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #634 | #700 |
| Kansas | 5 | #640 | — |
| Alabama | 7 | #682 | — |
| Oregon | 5 | #693 | #645 |
| Texas | 44 | #695 | #1,253 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #723 | #910 |
| Virginia | 10 | #735 | — |
| Utah | 5 | #776 | — |
| Georgia | 13 | #779 | — |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #791 | #848 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #865 | — |
| Arizona | 7 | #876 | — |
| Maryland | 5 | #940 | — |
| New York | 16 | #964 | #1,110 |
| California | 28 | #991 | #1,410 |
| Florida | 11 | #1,295 | #1,993 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 485 | #606 | — | — |
| 2024 | 423 | #677 | — | — |
| 2023 | 371 | #757 | — | — |
| 2022 | 346 | #810 | — | — |
| 2021 | 300 | #902 | — | — |
| 2020 | 272 | #943 | — | — |
| 2019 | 252 | #1,023 | — | — |
| 2018 | 232 | #1,087 | — | — |
| 2017 | 229 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 2016 | 240 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 2015 | 219 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 2014 | 179 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 2013 | 121 | #1,720 | — | — |
| 2012 | 124 | #1,695 | — | — |
| 2011 | 111 | #1,824 | — | — |
| 2010 | 97 | #2,052 | — | — |
| 2009 | 84 | #2,328 | — | — |
| 2008 | 112 | #1,896 | — | — |
| 2007 | 105 | #1,963 | — | — |
| 2006 | 113 | #1,818 | — | — |
| 2005 | 103 | #1,887 | — | — |
| 2004 | 90 | #2,033 | — | — |
| 2003 | 80 | #2,180 | — | — |
| 2002 | 76 | #2,191 | — | — |
| 2001 | 77 | #2,141 | — | — |
| 2000 | 92 | #1,859 | — | — |
| 1999 | 102 | #1,640 | — | — |
| 1998 | 102 | #1,603 | — | — |
| 1997 | 109 | #1,501 | — | — |
| 1996 | 139 | #1,260 | — | — |
| 1995 | 124 | #1,334 | — | — |
| 1994 | 135 | #1,268 | — | — |
| 1993 | 137 | #1,256 | — | — |
| 1992 | 141 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 1991 | 184 | #1,010 | — | — |
| 1990 | 207 | #922 | — | — |
| 1989 | 201 | #907 | — | — |
| 1988 | 251 | #748 | — | — |
| 1987 | 269 | #687 | — | — |
| 1986 | 297 | #627 | — | — |
| 1985 | 287 | #645 | — | — |
| 1984 | 309 | #588 | — | — |
| 1983 | 347 | #541 | — | — |
| 1982 | 413 | #493 | — | — |
| 1981 | 487 | #439 | 5 | #6,883 |
| 1980 | 418 | #494 | — | — |
| 1979 | 495 | #422 | — | — |
| 1978 | 481 | #421 | — | — |
| 1977 | 571 | #374 | — | — |
| 1976 | 671 | #333 | — | — |
| 1975 | 778 | #301 | — | — |
| 1974 | 956 | #266 | — | — |
| 1973 | 972 | #257 | — | — |
| 1972 | 1,047 | #258 | — | — |
| 1971 | 1,304 | #228 | 5 | #5,362 |
| 1970 | 1,365 | #231 | 5 | #5,158 |
| 1969 | 1,541 | #204 | 7 | #3,803 |
| 1968 | 1,627 | #194 | 8 | #3,268 |
| 1967 | 1,803 | #177 | 5 | #4,325 |
| 1966 | 1,899 | #175 | 11 | #2,565 |
| 1965 | 1,839 | #185 | 5 | #4,240 |
| 1964 | 2,228 | #174 | 8 | #3,182 |
| 1963 | 2,507 | #161 | 5 | #4,402 |
| 1962 | 2,513 | #160 | 11 | #2,607 |
| 1961 | 2,922 | #148 | 7 | #3,548 |
| 1960 | 3,191 | #138 | 13 | #2,387 |
| 1959 | 3,156 | #136 | 16 | #2,076 |
| 1958 | 3,314 | #132 | 7 | #3,457 |
| 1957 | 3,350 | #131 | 9 | #2,938 |
| 1956 | 3,407 | #126 | 9 | #2,897 |
| 1955 | 3,431 | #123 | 11 | #2,509 |
| 1954 | 3,245 | #125 | 7 | #3,329 |
| 1953 | 2,666 | #137 | — | — |
| 1952 | 2,616 | #136 | 6 | #3,587 |
| 1951 | 2,489 | #135 | 8 | #2,976 |
| 1950 | 2,720 | #120 | 7 | #3,207 |
| 1949 | 2,776 | #117 | — | — |
| 1948 | 2,868 | #115 | 6 | #3,536 |
| 1947 | 3,001 | #113 | 8 | #3,007 |
| 1946 | 2,892 | #111 | 10 | #2,490 |
| 1945 | 2,661 | #107 | 8 | #2,677 |
| 1944 | 2,746 | #98 | 9 | #2,562 |
| 1943 | 3,169 | #89 | 5 | #3,839 |
| 1942 | 3,406 | #79 | 11 | #2,341 |
| 1941 | 3,100 | #81 | 15 | #1,866 |
| 1940 | 3,502 | #69 | 11 | #2,263 |
| 1939 | 3,769 | #65 | 16 | #1,765 |
| 1938 | 3,913 | #62 | 18 | #1,659 |
| 1937 | 3,673 | #63 | 13 | #2,052 |
| 1936 | 3,325 | #70 | 17 | #1,698 |
| 1935 | 3,365 | #69 | 14 | #1,997 |
| 1934 | 2,978 | #83 | 14 | #1,985 |
| 1933 | 2,705 | #87 | 21 | #1,523 |
| 1932 | 2,746 | #89 | 10 | #2,565 |
| 1931 | 2,581 | #96 | 9 | #2,792 |
| 1930 | 2,482 | #105 | 13 | #2,250 |
| 1929 | 1,939 | #127 | 13 | #2,272 |
| 1928 | 1,996 | #123 | 10 | #2,767 |
| 1927 | 2,018 | #127 | 5 | #4,547 |
| 1926 | 2,108 | #126 | 6 | #4,010 |
| 1925 | 2,255 | #122 | 9 | #3,052 |
| 1924 | 2,261 | #124 | 8 | #3,401 |
| 1923 | 2,143 | #124 | — | — |
| 1922 | 2,095 | #125 | 6 | #4,123 |
| 1921 | 2,134 | #122 | 5 | #4,712 |
| 1920 | 2,122 | #120 | — | — |
| 1919 | 2,067 | #118 | 6 | #3,991 |
| 1918 | 2,051 | #116 | — | — |
| 1917 | 1,970 | #114 | — | — |
| 1916 | 1,903 | #113 | 7 | #3,373 |
| 1915 | 1,810 | #115 | 5 | #4,160 |
| 1914 | 1,323 | #122 | 6 | #3,113 |
| 1913 | 1,074 | #118 | — | — |
| 1912 | 978 | #119 | 6 | #2,449 |
| 1911 | 739 | #118 | 7 | #1,480 |
| 1910 | 655 | #124 | — | — |
| 1909 | 573 | #123 | — | — |
| 1908 | 566 | #119 | — | — |
| 1907 | 520 | #127 | — | — |
| 1906 | 520 | #121 | — | — |
| 1905 | 527 | #121 | — | — |
| 1904 | 506 | #116 | — | — |
| 1903 | 505 | #114 | — | — |
| 1902 | 461 | #124 | — | — |
| 1901 | 438 | #118 | — | — |
| 1900 | 535 | #121 | — | — |
| 1899 | 410 | #121 | — | — |
| 1898 | 454 | #118 | — | — |
| 1897 | 406 | #123 | — | — |
| 1896 | 391 | #122 | — | — |
| 1895 | 365 | #126 | — | — |
| 1894 | 330 | #131 | — | — |
| 1893 | 323 | #133 | — | — |
| 1892 | 263 | #153 | — | — |
| 1891 | 212 | #159 | — | — |
| 1890 | 228 | #156 | — | — |
| 1889 | 172 | #170 | — | — |
| 1888 | 157 | #178 | — | — |
| 1887 | 134 | #174 | — | — |
| 1886 | 141 | #165 | — | — |
| 1885 | 91 | #198 | — | — |
| 1884 | 94 | #188 | — | — |
| 1883 | 76 | #197 | — | — |
| 1882 | 72 | #195 | — | — |
| 1881 | 58 | #199 | — | — |
| 1880 | 41 | #243 | — | — |
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).