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Lauretta

#9,207 in 2025Girls' name

Laurel tree, through Laura

Lauretta has been given to 9,710 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #9,207 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1915, with 224 recorded.

Babies named Lauretta, 2025

1 in 301,000

Lauretta over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lauretta: meaning, origin, and history

Laurel tree, through Laura

Latin

What Lauretta means

Lauretta belongs to the name family reached through Lauretta → Laura. Its meaning is “laurel tree”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

An Italian pet form of Laura; first introduced into English as the name of one of the narrators in the Decameron.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Lauretta (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Lauretta is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Laura.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Lauretta is pronounced /ˌləˈɹɛtə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,710 girls were recorded with the name Lauretta between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 224 in 1915; its best national rank was #352 in 1904.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,672 in 2020 to #9,207 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,833 in 2015 to #9,207 in 2025.

How common is Lauretta?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,207
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lauretta sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lauretta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Laurettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lauretta was born before 1931 — so the typical Lauretta is around 94 today.

Median birth year
1931
About 94 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,599
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Choose a decade

1920s — 18.3% of all recorded uses (1,776).

Is Lauretta rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,409
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,465
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,626
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.57×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.9%
Peak was 1915 (224)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#352
1904

Spellings of Lauretta

Lauretta is not the most common spelling — Loretta is, with 84.6% against Lauretta's 4.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Lauretta is used

Across 1910–2025, Lauretta was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 31,727 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 9,091
  2. 2Maine1 in 11,111
  3. 3Illinois1 in 12,500
  4. 4New York1 in 16,667
  5. 5Ohio1 in 16,667
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 16,667
  7. 7Michigan1 in 20,000
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Lauretta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lauretta around the world

Where Lauretta ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    1969–1979
    #523
    in 1979
  • France
    1909–2004
    #5,108
    in 2004
  • South Australia
    1946–1983
    #686
    in 1983

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Lauretta

People whose public names include Lauretta, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Lauretta by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,207
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,465
Best rank ever
#352
1904
Peak year
1915
224 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,710
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Lauretta

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Lauretta

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lauretta, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Lauretta

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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