Loretta
Loretta is ranked 677th among girls in 2024 (422 births). Its best rank was 62nd, in 1938.
- Rank in 2024
- #677up 86 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4220.03% of girls
- Peak year
- 19383,913 births
- Best rank
- #62in 1938
- Since 1880
- 177,072people given the name
The story in the numbers
177,072 girls have been named Loretta in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1938, with 3,913 births — 0.35% of all girls recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1943, and the 1930s alone account for 18%. It has spent 116 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 14 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Loretta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,036 | |
| 1890s | 3,382 | |
| 1900s | 5,151 | |
| 1910s | 14,570 | |
| 1920s | 21,071 | |
| 1930s | 31,537 | |
| 1940s | 30,120 | |
| 1950s | 30,394 | |
| 1960s | 22,070 | |
| 1970s | 8,640 | |
| 1980s | 3,279 | |
| 1990s | 1,380 | |
| 2000s | 930 | |
| 2010s | 1,803 | |
| 2020s | 1,709 |
In 1938, its biggest year
Loretta was the 62nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1938 were Mary, Barbara, Patricia, Betty and Shirley. See all of 1938.
Names that rose and fell with Loretta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gaynellpeak 1952
- Edwinapeak 1943
- Sylviapeak 1937
- Annpeak 1957
- Robbiepeak 1957
- Fayepeak 1943
- Vonniepeak 1959
- Retapeak 1946
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.