Lorett

Girls' name

Laurel tree, through Lauretta

Lorett has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 1957. 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 1957, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Lorett, 1968

1 in 676,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lorett: meaning, origin, and history

Laurel tree, through Lauretta

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lorett means

Lorett belongs to the name family reached through Lorett → Lauretta → Laura. Its meaning is “laurel tree”.

Origin, language, and formation

Lorett is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lauretta and Laura.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15 girls were recorded with the name Lorett between 1957 and 1968. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1957; its best national rank was #6,641 in 1957.

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 Lorett?

Lorett had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1968, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1968: 1 in 676,000; 5 of 3,378,301 births
Among girls only: 1 in 328,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1968: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 468,333 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Lorett 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 1968 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 468,333 children born in 1968 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lorett. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Loretts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lorett was born before 1963 — so the typical Lorett is around 62 today.

Median birth year: 1963; About 62 years old
Biggest decade: 1960s; 66.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 15; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1960s — 66.7% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Lorett 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 1957 (5)
Years since peak: 68; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #6,641; 1957

Spellings of Lorett

Lorett is not the most common spelling — Loretta is, with 56.6% against Lorett's <0.01%.

Loretta56.6%177,564
Lorena14.3%44,960
Lorene12.6%39,379
Loren4.1%12,841
Loreen1.1%3,596
Loree1.1%3,469
Brett1.1%3,404
Lorretta0.86%2,708

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.

Lorett 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: #6,641; 1957
Peak year: 1957; 5 that year
First recorded: 1957
Last recorded: 1968
All-time count: 15
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Lorett

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

Lorria Lorayn Loreto Loring Lorise Lorrae Lorese Lorijo Loreita Lorreen Loreana Pruett Lorrita Loranne Lorii Loreyna Loressa Lorilai Loresa Loriece Lorelyn Lorez Lorde Loreine

Sibling names for Lorett

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

Sherie Evonne Joanie Vickey Maribeth Vikki Terese Mariann

For a brother

Hayward Danial Von Michel Burt Fritz Kirby Curtiss

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