Loleatta

Girls' name

Sorrows, through Lolita

Loleatta has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1977. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1977, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Loleatta, 1977

1 in 635,000

Loleatta over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Loleatta: meaning, origin, and history

Sorrows, through Lolita

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Loleatta means

Loleatta belongs to the name family reached through Loleatta → Lolita → Dolores. Its meaning is “sorrows”.

Origin, language, and formation

Loleatta is used in English.

Loleatta comes through Spanish Lolita.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lolita and Dolores.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Loleatta between 1977 and 1977. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1977; its best national rank was #10,535 in 1977.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Loleatta?

Loleatta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1977, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1977: 1 in 635,000; 5 of 3,176,294 births
Among girls only: 1 in 307,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1977: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 440,329 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Loleatta 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 1977 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 440,329 children born in 1977 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Loleatta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Loleattas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Loleatta was born before 1977 — so the typical Loleatta is around 48 today.

Median birth year: 1977; About 48 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Loleatta 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1977 (5)
Years since peak: 48; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #10,535; 1977

Spellings of Loleatta

Loleatta is not the most common spelling — Loretta is, with 96.7% against Loleatta's <0.01%.

Loretta96.7%177,564
Coletta1.3%2,384
Louetta0.84%1,548
Loleta0.56%1,021
Lovetta0.55%1,008
Loleatta<0.01%5

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.

Loleatta by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #10,535; 1977
Peak year: 1977; 5 that year
First recorded: 1977
Last recorded: 1977
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Loleatta

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

Lolitta Lolethia Lolarose Valletta Lolabelle Loletta Loleatha Bergetta Junietta Rosietta Norretta Arthetta Dorretta Gwynetta Leanetta Marsetta Jeanitta Vindetta Charetta Cheretta Shiretta Clinetta Rechetta Carlitta

Sibling names for Loleatta

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

For a sister

Jason Kevin Sommer Tamar Salina Jamila Corrie Shanta

For a brother

Torrey Tory Aric Rodrick Delvin Andrea Cedrick Jamey

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