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Lore

Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Lore has been given to 1,118 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1961, with 56 recorded.

Babies named Lore, 2024

1 in 334,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lore: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lore means

Lore has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Lore

A separate documented entry treats Lore as a form of Eleonore. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

One of the source’s documented entries for Lore records a meaning of flower.

Origin, language, and formation

Lore is used in Dutch, French and German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eleonore, Laura, Laure and Hannelore.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Lore is pronounced /ˈloːrə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,118 girls were recorded with the name Lore between 1915 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 56 in 1961; its best national rank was #1,508 in 1961.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lore?

Lore had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 334,000
10 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 162,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
231,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lore 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 2024 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 231,706 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lore. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lores were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lore was born before 1961 — so the typical Lore is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
33.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
912
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1960s — 33.5% of all recorded uses (375).

Is Lore 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
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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 1961 (56)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,508
1961

Spellings of Lore

Lore is not the most common spelling — Rose is, with 17.1% against Lore's 0.04%.

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 Lore is used

Across 1910–2025, Lore was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 445,126 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

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. Lore has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lore around the world

Where Lore 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.

  • France
    1901–2025
    #3,942
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1961–1961
    #665
    in 1961

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lore 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
#1,508
1961
Peak year
1961
56 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
1,118
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lore

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

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Sibling names for Lore

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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