Loretto
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Loretto has been given to 933 babies in the U.S. since 1882. 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 1915, with 28 recorded.
Babies named Loretto, 1964
1 in 432,000
Loretto over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Loretto?
Loretto had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1964, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1964
- 1 in 432,000
- 9 of 3,887,460 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 211,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1964
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 299,399 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Loretto sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1964 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 299,399 children born in 1964 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Loretto. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lorettos were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Loretto was born before 1916 — so the typical Loretto is around 109 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 18.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 19.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 106
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 18.0% of all recorded uses (166).
Is Loretto 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 1915 (28)
- Years since peak
- 110
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.6% average annual change
Spellings of Loretto
Loretto is not the most common spelling — Loretta is, with 90.3% against Loretto's 0.47%.
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 Loretto is used
Across 1910–2025, Loretto was most concentrated in Missouri — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 730,803 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Missouri1 in —
- 2New York1 in —
- 3Pennsylvania1 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. Loretto has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Loretto around the world
Where Loretto 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.
- Ireland1964–1982#523in 1982
- South Australia1949–1955#502in 1955
Popularity data from Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Loretto by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Loretto
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Loretto
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.