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Lorelai

#333 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Lorelei

Lorelai has been given to 10,253 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #333 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 926 recorded.

Babies named Lorelai, 2025

1 in 3,580

Lorelai over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02505007501K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lorelai: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Lorelei

German

What Lorelai means

Lorelai is a variant of Lorelei.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Lorelai → Lorelei. The family’s meaning is “murmuring rock or lurking rock”, recorded in English with the source elements Lorelei.

Origin, language, and formation

Lorelai is used in English. Its origins include German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lorelei.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,253 girls were recorded with the name Lorelai between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 926 in 2025; its best national rank was #333 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #527 in 2020 to #333 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #655 in 2015 to #333 in 2025.

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 Lorelai?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 3,580
926 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 1,740
0.06% of girls
Rank, 2025
#333
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
2,483 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lorelai 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 1003%
School of 50013%

Put another way: gather 2,483 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lorelai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lorelais were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lorelai was born before 2018 — so the typical Lorelai is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10,253
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.4% of all recorded uses (4,344).

Is Lorelai 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
+70
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+194
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+322
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.11×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (926)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#333
2025

Spellings of Lorelai

Lorelai is not the most common spelling — Lorena is, with 55.4% against Lorelai's 12.6%.

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 Lorelai is used

Across 2016–2025, Lorelai was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 1,163 girls, against 1 in 2,224 across all states with data. It was least common in New Mexico (1 in 11,111).

986 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maine1 in 1,163
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 1,266
  3. 3Indiana1 in 1,282
  4. 4Kansas1 in 1,333
  5. 5Missouri1 in 1,370
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 1,370
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 1,370
  8. 8Wisconsin1 in 1,370

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.

Geographically, Lorelai is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 22% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Lorelai around the world

Where Lorelai 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
    2009–2025
    #807
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2011–2011
    #444
    in 2011
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    2000–2025
    #4,693
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #1,050
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2005–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Lorelai in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Lorelai. Linked forms have their own page here.

Lorelei

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Lorelai by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#333
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 194
Best rank ever
#333
2025
Peak year
2025
926 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,253
Count in 2025
926

Names similar to Lorelai

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

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Names with a curve like Lorelai

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

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Sibling names for Lorelai

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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