Girl · #606 in 2025

Loretta

Loretta: popularity and trends since 1880

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 girls born

Loretta per 100,000 girls born, by year. Peak: 1938. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Loretta has been rising: its share of girls born has grown over the last 10 years. It now stands at 9% of its 1938 peak.

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.