Lorea

Girls' name

Variant of Lore

Lorea has been given to 190 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 2013, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Lorea, 2021

1 in 678,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lorea: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Lore

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lorea means

Lorea is a variant of Lore.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lorea is used in Basque.

Another recorded pronunciation is /lo.ˈɾe.a/ for Lorea.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Lorea is a variant of Lore. Lore has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lore.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 190 girls were recorded with the name Lorea between 1916 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2013; its best national rank was #3,654 in 1934.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Lorea?

Lorea had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021: 1 in 678,000; 5 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only: 1 in 328,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 469,949 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Lorea 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lorea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Loreas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lorea was born before 1978 — so the typical Lorea is around 47 today.

Median birth year: 1978; About 47 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 18.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 35.8%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 153; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 18.9% of all recorded uses (36).

Is Lorea 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 2013 (10)
Years since peak: 12; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Steady; 7.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,654; 1934

Spellings of Lorea

Lorea is not the most common spelling — Gloria is, with 17.7% against Lorea's <0.01%.

Gloria17.7%415,281
Lori14.6%341,911
Norma11.8%278,071
Nora8.2%193,138
Loretta7.6%177,564
Cora6.6%156,028
Dora4.5%105,930
Lola4.1%96,892

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.

Lorea around the world

Where Lorea 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
2024–2024
#4,193
in 2024
France
1986–2025
#3,446
in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Lorea 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: #3,654; 1934
Peak year: 2013; 10 that year
First recorded: 1916
Last recorded: 2021
All-time count: 190
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Lorea

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

Lorely Loriel Lorali Loraina Lorey Nerea Lorel Lorenna Loralye Loral Lorah Loreley Loreli Loray Lorre Lorra Lorae Loryn Lorian Lorynn Lorma Lorrin Lorien Loralai

Sibling names for Lorea

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

Blythe Alyvia Gwyneth Sofie Honesty Aubri Kaelynn Kendyl

For a brother

Gibson Tobin Jaxen Arian Jai Vihaan Konnor Kellan

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