Lorretta
Lorretta is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 195762 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1893
- 2,708people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,708 girls have been named Lorretta in the United States since 1893, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 62 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 62 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1950, and the 1960s alone account for 18%.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lorretta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 32 | |
| 1910s | 175 | |
| 1920s | 328 | |
| 1930s | 391 | |
| 1940s | 411 | |
| 1950s | 479 | |
| 1960s | 484 | |
| 1970s | 271 | |
| 1980s | 98 | |
| 1990s | 29 | |
| 2000s | 5 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Lorretta was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1957 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Debra and Karen. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Lorretta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Madonnapeak 1954
- Arlethapeak 1963
- Twilapeak 1960
- Arnettapeak 1953
- Lorethapeak 1954
- Loritapeak 1944
- Vandapeak 1960
- Venitapeak 1960
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.