Lorelai
#333 for girls in 2025, 926 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 926 births
- Debut · girls
- 20 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,253since 2001
Lorelai over time
Rank among girls' names. Lorelai has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #333 | 926 |
| 2024 | #402 | 789 |
| 2023 | #473 | 651 |
| 2022 | #480 | 659 |
| 2021 | #521 | 591 |
| 2020 | #525 | 574 |
| 2019 | #553 | 549 |
| 2018 | #568 | 544 |
| 2017 | #544 | 568 |
| 2016 | #623 | 479 |
| 2015 | #655 | 439 |
| 2014 | #819 | 338 |
| 2013 | #800 | 338 |
| 2012 | #733 | 378 |
| 2011 | #797 | 340 |
| 2010 | #748 | 371 |
| 2009 | #779 | 363 |
| 2008 | #890 | 312 |
| 2007 | #868 | 321 |
| 2006 | #993 | 262 |
| 2005 | #1,216 | 187 |
| 2004 | #1,895 | 99 |
| 2003 | #2,048 | 87 |
| 2002 | #2,352 | 68 |
| 2001 | #5,570 | 20 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Lorelai! It came in at #5,570, and was given to 20 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2001, when fewer than 21 girls a year got the name.
Where Lorelai is popular in 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Carolina#786 · 1 in 4,540
- Ohio#789 · 1 in 5,728
- Pennsylvania#841 · 1 in 6,095
- Virginia#861 · 1 in 5,301
- Texas#945 · 1 in 6,177
Best ever in a state: #90 in Alaska, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| North Carolina | #786 | 10 | 1 in 4,540 |
| Ohio | #789 | 10 | 1 in 5,728 |
| Pennsylvania | #841 | 9 | 1 in 6,095 |
| Virginia | #861 | 7 | 1 in 5,301 |
| Texas | #945 | 26 | 1 in 6,177 |
| Florida | #1,101 | 11 | 1 in 7,792 |
| Georgia | #1,137 | 7 | 1 in 7,342 |
| Arizona | #1,143 | 5 | 1 in 7,106 |
| New York | #1,283 | 10 | 1 in 9,508 |
| Illinois | #1,308 | 7 | 1 in 9,594 |
| California | #1,656 | 15 | 1 in 15,361 |
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See more about Lorelai
- 69 spots since 2024 (#402 → #333)
- 192 spots since 2020 (#525 → #333)
- 322 spots since 2015 (#655 → #333)
- Biggest jump: 223 spots in 2006 (#1,216 → #993)
- Biggest drop: 67 spots in 2013 (#733 → #800)
- Debuted 2001
- Peaked 2025 at #333 (926 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 2006–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,736 girls born in 2025 were named Lorelai (0.06%)
- 42.4% of all girls named Lorelai (4,344) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,719 | #779 (2009) | #1,846 |
| 2010s | 4,344 | #544 (2017) | #684 |
| 2020s | 4,190 | #333 (2025) | #456 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Lorelai in 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 9,882 of them was named Lorelai, which outranked 93.7% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,210Karsyn189
- #1,214Alycia188
- #1,214Melisa188
- #1,216Lorelai187
- #1,216Amalia187
- #1,216Audra187
- #1,216Azariah187
- #1,222Caitlynn186
- #1,222Joseline186
- #1,222Rachelle186
Tied with 5 names at #1,216; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.