Lorelai

What Lorelai means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Lorelai yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #333 vs #807 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Lorelai?

US: Rising: up from #655 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1452 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 926 girls got the name (#333 that year). First in the US records in 2001.

How common

• About 1 in 1,736 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 5,628 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 5,964 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AK (4.23 per 1,000 girls), RI (2.04 per 1,000 girls), ME (1.93 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Lorelai is #333 in the US and #807 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Lorelai were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Lorelei699 US · 28 E&W
• Loralei65 US
• Loralai27 US
• Lorali21 US
• Loreli15 US
• Loreal6 US
• Lorely6 US
• Loreley5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Lorelai

Girls

• Ava#11Editor’s note Down from #4 in 2015 to #11 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 210 US girls in the 2025 records
• Mia#6Editor’s note Steady in the US: #6 in 2015 and #6 in 2025. About 1 in 150 US girls in the 2025 records
• Evelyn#8Same root as Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*
• Adelaide#289“noble + nature, character”^*
• Adeline#59Form of Adela, meaning “noble”^*
• Alina#130Editor’s note Up from #173 in 2015 to #130 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• Bruno#740“brown”^*
• Axel#79Editor’s note Up from #123 in 2015 to #79 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 410 US boys in the 2025 records
• Kai#93“warrior”^*
• Emery#814Editor’s note Down from #745 in 2015 to #814 in 2025 in the US
• Milo#119Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #288 in 2015, #119 in 2025
• Alonso#785Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #785 vs #1,897 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Germanic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Lorelai’s. Rank is US 2025.