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Loralei

About 1,811 American babies have been named Loralei since 1940, most of them around 2011. In 2025 it ranked 2,645th. About 1,800 Loraleis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Loralei

By the numbers

Total US births
1,811
Estimated living today
1,800
Median age today
12
Peak year
2011
Best rank
1,840th
Rank in 2025
2,645th
First recorded
1940

How old the living Loraleis are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,811 babies given the name since 1940, about 1,800 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 1,300 of them are children and 30 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Loralei is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Loralei is most concentrated in Texas (4.3×), Florida (3.3×), Missouri (3.2×), Tennessee (3.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2011

The most popular girls’ names the year Loralei peaked:

All the names of 2011

Loralei elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Loralei 4 4,739th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Related names

Loralei against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.