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Lorita

Girls' name

Variant of Loreto

Lorita has been given to 1,748 babies in the U.S. since 1902. 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 1944, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Lorita, 1992

1 in 640,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lorita: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Loreto

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lorita means

Lorita is a variant of Loreto.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lorita is used in Italian (Rare).

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Lorita → Loreto → Loreto → laurus → laura. The family’s meaning is “Egyptian rue (Ruta angustifolia)”, recorded in Latin with the source elements laura.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Loreto.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,748 girls were recorded with the name Lorita between 1902 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 43 in 1944; its best national rank was #1,151 in 1935.

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 Lorita?

Lorita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1992, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1992
1 in 640,000
6 of 3,839,369 births
Among girls only
1 in 307,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1992
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
443,542 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lorita 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 1992 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 443,542 children born in 1992 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lorita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Loritas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lorita was born before 1951 — so the typical Lorita is around 74 today.

Median birth year
1951
About 74 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
19.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
903
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1950s — 19.0% of all recorded uses (332).

Is Lorita 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1944 (43)
Years since peak
81
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,151
1935

Spellings of Lorita

Lorita is not the most common spelling — Gloria is, with 26.6% against Lorita's 0.11%.

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 Lorita is used

Across 1910–2025, Lorita was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 225,772 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Missouri1 in —
  5. 5North Carolina1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 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. Lorita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lorita around the world

Where Lorita 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.

  • France
    1998–2016
    #6,491
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1962–1985
    #671
    in 1985

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lorita 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
#1,151
1935
Peak year
1944
43 that year
First recorded
1902
Last recorded
1992
All-time count
1,748
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lorita

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

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Sibling names for Lorita

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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