Lorelai

Where Lorelai comes from

Re-spelling of Lorelei.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lorelai
  • German
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 2001
    First appearance
    #5,570 among girls, 20 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2025
    Peak, #333
    926 babies named Lorelai — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from German.
Namesakes

No widely known Lorelai turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.