Loralei
- #2,645 for girls in 2025, 65 births
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 109 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,811since 1940
Loralei over time
Rank among girls' names. Loralei has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,645 | 65 |
| 2024 | #2,889 | 57 |
| 2023 | #3,140 | 52 |
| 2022 | #2,463 | 73 |
| 2021 | #2,460 | 72 |
| 2020 | #2,712 | 61 |
| 2019 | #2,508 | 70 |
| 2018 | #2,334 | 78 |
| 2017 | #2,597 | 67 |
| 2016 | #2,667 | 65 |
| 2015 | #2,259 | 83 |
| 2014 | #2,194 | 86 |
| 2013 | #2,108 | 90 |
| 2012 | #2,286 | 82 |
| 2011 | #1,840 | 109 |
| 2010 | #2,028 | 98 |
| 2009 | #2,375 | 81 |
| 2008 | #3,017 | 57 |
| 2007 | #2,485 | 75 |
| 2006 | #2,978 | 57 |
| 2005 | #3,009 | 53 |
| 2004 | #2,998 | 52 |
| 2003 | #3,412 | 42 |
| 2002 | #4,906 | 24 |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 |
| 2000 | — | |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 |
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| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 |
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| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 |
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| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 |
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| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 |
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| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 |
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| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 |
| 1961 | #4,009 | 11 |
| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 |
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| 1958 | #4,193 | 9 |
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| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 |
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| 1949 | #4,673 | 6 |
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| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Loralei! It came in at #4,349, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1940–1948, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Loralei is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alabama#819 · 1 in 3,664
- Minnesota#835 · 1 in 4,296
- Ohio#1,035 · 1 in 5,909
Best ever in a state: #643 in Missouri, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Alabama | #819 | 5 | 1 in 3,664 |
| Minnesota | #835 | 5 | 1 in 4,296 |
| Ohio | #1,035 | 8 | 1 in 5,909 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Loralei
- 244 spots since 2024 (#2,889 → #2,645)
- 67 spots since 2020 (#2,712 → #2,645)
- 386 spots since 2015 (#2,259 → #2,645)
- Debuted 1940
- Peaked 2011 at #1,840 (109 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,138 girls born in 2011 were named Loralei (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 24,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 45.7% of all girls named Loralei (828) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 11 | #4,349 (1940) | #4,511 |
| 1950s | 21 | #4,193 (1958) | #4,784 |
| 1960s | 48 | #4,009 (1961) | #5,619 |
| 1970s | 23 | #7,567 (1977) | #8,646 |
| 1980s | 10 | #10,677 (1985) | #11,520 |
| 1990s | 33 | #10,345 (1999) | #13,004 |
| 2000s | 457 | #2,375 (2009) | #3,533 |
| 2010s | 828 | #1,840 (2011) | #2,282 |
| 2020s | 380 | #2,460 (2021) | #2,718 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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