Lauretta

Where Lauretta comes from

An Italian pet form of Laura; first introduced into English as the name of one of the narrators in the Decameron.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lauretta
  • Latin
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #738 among girls — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1897
    Lauretta Bender born
    American neuropsychiatrist
  3. 1904
    Peak, #351
    86 babies named Lauretta — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1927
    Lauretta Masiero born
    Italian actress and singer
  5. 1968
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,812.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Lauretta Masiero · Italian actress and singer, 1927–2010
  • Lauretta Bender · American neuropsychiatrist, 1897–1987
  • Lauretta Ngcobo · South African novelist and essayist, 1931–2015
  • Lauretta Hanson · Australian cyclist, born 1994
  • Lauretta of Saarbrücken · Sovereign countess regnant, 1250–1271

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.