Lorelai
#333 for girls in 2025, 926 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 926 births
- Debut · girls
- 20 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,253since 2001
Lorelai over time
Rank among girls' names. Lorelai has never cracked the top 300 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 | #333 | 926 |
| 2024 | #402 | 789 |
| 2023 | #473 | 651 |
| 2022 | #480 | 659 |
| 2021 | #521 | 591 |
| 2020 | #525 | 574 |
| 2019 | #553 | 549 |
| 2018 | #568 | 544 |
| 2017 | #544 | 568 |
| 2016 | #623 | 479 |
| 2015 | #655 | 439 |
| 2014 | #819 | 338 |
| 2013 | #800 | 338 |
| 2012 | #733 | 378 |
| 2011 | #797 | 340 |
| 2010 | #748 | 371 |
| 2009 | #779 | 363 |
| 2008 | #890 | 312 |
| 2007 | #868 | 321 |
| 2006 | #993 | 262 |
| 2005 | #1,216 | 187 |
| 2004 | #1,895 | 99 |
| 2003 | #2,048 | 87 |
| 2002 | #2,352 | 68 |
| 2001 | #5,570 | 20 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Lorelai! It came in at #5,570, and was given to 20 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2001, when fewer than 21 girls a year got the name.
Where Lorelai is popular in 2011
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Virginia#381 · 1 in 1,803
- South Carolina#437 · 1 in 1,941
- Washington#444 · 1 in 2,014
- Indiana#470 · 1 in 2,334
- Missouri#479 · 1 in 2,254
Best ever in a state: #90 in Alaska, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Virginia | #381 | 20 | 1 in 1,803 |
| South Carolina | #437 | 9 | 1 in 1,941 |
| Washington | #444 | 15 | 1 in 2,014 |
| Indiana | #470 | 13 | 1 in 2,334 |
| Missouri | #479 | 12 | 1 in 2,254 |
| Kentucky | #482 | 8 | 1 in 2,298 |
| Connecticut | #514 | 5 | 1 in 2,413 |
| Arkansas | #533 | 5 | 1 in 2,304 |
| Pennsylvania | #562 | 18 | 1 in 2,934 |
| Ohio | #616 | 15 | 1 in 3,440 |
| Utah | #626 | 6 | 1 in 2,992 |
| Colorado | #671 | 7 | 1 in 3,199 |
| Tennessee | #706 | 8 | 1 in 3,701 |
| North Carolina | #752 | 11 | 1 in 4,014 |
| Maryland | #756 | 6 | 1 in 3,997 |
| Georgia | #775 | 12 | 1 in 3,976 |
| Alabama | #776 | 5 | 1 in 3,735 |
| Michigan | #799 | 9 | 1 in 4,602 |
| Louisiana | #819 | 5 | 1 in 3,906 |
| Wisconsin | #845 | 5 | 1 in 4,687 |
| Illinois | #928 | 11 | 1 in 5,406 |
| Florida | #939 | 14 | 1 in 5,680 |
| Arizona | #943 | 6 | 1 in 5,085 |
| Texas | #993 | 26 | 1 in 5,996 |
| California | #998 | 32 | 1 in 6,488 |
| New Jersey | #1,011 | 6 | 1 in 6,160 |
| New York | #1,360 | 10 | 1 in 9,277 |
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See more about Lorelai
- 69 spots since 2024 (#402 → #333)
- 192 spots since 2020 (#525 → #333)
- 322 spots since 2015 (#655 → #333)
- Biggest jump: 223 spots in 2006 (#1,216 → #993)
- Biggest drop: 67 spots in 2013 (#733 → #800)
- Debuted 2001
- Peaked 2025 at #333 (926 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 2006–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,736 girls born in 2025 were named Lorelai (0.06%)
- 42.4% of all girls named Lorelai (4,344) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,719 | #779 (2009) | #1,846 |
| 2010s | 4,344 | #544 (2017) | #684 |
| 2020s | 4,190 | #333 (2025) | #456 |
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.
Lorelai in 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
More about 2011
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1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 5,174 of them was named Lorelai, which outranked 95.9% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).