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Loreli vs Lorenzo

American parents have registered 86,066 Lorenzos since 1880, against 662 Lorelis. Lorenzo is still ahead, with 3,065 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Loreli against Lorenzo, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Loreli Lorenzo

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Lorenzo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1953, when Loreli had 13 and Lorenzo had 444.

Side by side

  Loreli Lorenzo
Total US births 66286,066
Most in one year 273,065
Babies in 2025 153,065
Estimated living today 62074,000
Median age today 1919
Peak year 20222025
Best rank 4,907th girls117th boys
Rank in 2025 7,133rd117th
First recorded 19381880
Girls / boys 662 / 0314 / 85,752

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Loreli and Lorenzo.