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Lorella

Girls' name

Diminutive of Eleonora

Lorella has been given to 347 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 1934, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Lorella, 1976

1 in 607,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lorella: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Eleonora

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lorella means

Lorella is a diminutive of Eleonora.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lorella is used in Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /lo.ˈrel.la/ for Lorella.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Lorella → Eleonora → Eleanor. The family’s proposed meaning is “other”, recorded in English with the source elements alia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eleonora.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 347 girls were recorded with the name Lorella between 1915 and 1976. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1934; its best national rank was #2,248 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lorella?

Lorella had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1976, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1976
1 in 607,000
5 of 3,034,007 births
Among girls only
1 in 293,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1976
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
420,604 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lorella 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 1976 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 420,604 children born in 1976 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lorella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lorellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lorella was born before 1939 — so the typical Lorella is around 86 today.

Median birth year
1939
About 86 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
23.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
131
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1930s — 23.6% of all recorded uses (82).

Is Lorella 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1934 (14)
Years since peak
91
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,248
1934

Spellings of Lorella

Lorella is not the most common spelling — Loretta is, with 49.5% against Lorella's 0.10%.

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 Lorella is used

Across 1910–2025, Lorella was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 565,733 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 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. Lorella has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lorella around the world

Where Lorella 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
    2001–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    1958–2020
    #7,576
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1959–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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

Lorella 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
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Best rank ever
#2,248
1934
Peak year
1934
14 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1976
All-time count
347
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lorella

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

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Sibling names for Lorella

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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