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 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maine#172 · 1 in 532
- Indiana#249 · 1 in 1,001
- Tennessee#299 · 1 in 1,265
- Wisconsin#304 · 1 in 1,222
- Arkansas#308 · 1 in 1,148
Best ever in a state: #90 in Alaska, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | #172 | 6 | 1 in 532 |
| Indiana | #249 | 28 | 1 in 1,001 |
| Tennessee | #299 | 24 | 1 in 1,265 |
| Wisconsin | #304 | 17 | 1 in 1,222 |
| Arkansas | #308 | 9 | 1 in 1,148 |
| Ohio | #323 | 35 | 1 in 1,369 |
| West Virginia | #326 | 5 | 1 in 1,089 |
| Oklahoma | #386 | 10 | 1 in 1,478 |
| North Carolina | #393 | 27 | 1 in 1,616 |
| Pennsylvania | #417 | 26 | 1 in 1,860 |
| Kentucky | #426 | 10 | 1 in 1,690 |
| Illinois | #432 | 25 | 1 in 1,950 |
| Kansas | #442 | 7 | 1 in 1,636 |
| Michigan | #442 | 20 | 1 in 1,893 |
| Virginia | #457 | 17 | 1 in 2,008 |
| Utah | #467 | 8 | 1 in 2,014 |
| Iowa | #474 | 6 | 1 in 1,919 |
| Maryland | #501 | 11 | 1 in 2,029 |
| Missouri | #509 | 11 | 1 in 2,225 |
| Alabama | #515 | 9 | 1 in 2,079 |
| Connecticut | #518 | 5 | 1 in 2,250 |
| Oregon | #528 | 6 | 1 in 2,182 |
| South Carolina | #538 | 8 | 1 in 2,163 |
| Mississippi | #546 | 5 | 1 in 2,028 |
| Washington | #592 | 11 | 1 in 2,648 |
| Florida | #610 | 27 | 1 in 2,980 |
| Georgia | #613 | 16 | 1 in 2,781 |
| Colorado | #621 | 8 | 1 in 2,693 |
| Texas | #629 | 49 | 1 in 3,121 |
| Massachusetts | #655 | 7 | 1 in 3,409 |
| California | #664 | 50 | 1 in 3,484 |
| Arizona | #683 | 9 | 1 in 3,073 |
| Minnesota | #758 | 6 | 1 in 3,610 |
| New York | #911 | 16 | 1 in 4,974 |
| New Jersey | #933 | 7 | 1 in 4,977 |
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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 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
More about 2020
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1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 2,816 of them was named Lorelai, which outranked 97.0% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).