Lorelei

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Lorelei: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Lorelei: Recorded since 1997, it reached #752 in 2014, and it stood at #918 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#752highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3174
1998	#3848
1999	#1805
2001	#2783
2002	#2868
2003	#3594
2004	#2802
2005	#3382
2006	#3548
2007	#3218
2008	#2721
2009	#1411
2010	#1472
2011	#1015
2012	#934
2013	#1253
2014	#859
2015	#845
2016	#955
2017	#855
2018	#952
2019	#806
2020	#1267
2021	#1069
2022	#1058
2023	#1030
2024	#918

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 27 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

In 2018: #896 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #952 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1997–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #3174 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2014–2018
Highest recorded position: #752 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2014 (recorded 2014–2018).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #918 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Lorelei appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 616 births with the name.

Lorelei across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Lorelei's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3174 (1997)	#806 (2019)	#918 (2024)	27 of 28	616 (1997–2024)	46 (2019)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#752 (2014)	#752 (2014)	#896 (2018)	2 of 5	7 (2014–2018)	4 (2014)

Lorelei by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Lorelei in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	16	3 of 10	5
2000s	64	9 of 10	7
2010sbusiest	375	10 of 10	38
2020s	161	5 of 10	32

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 38 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Lorelei appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #752 in Republic of Ireland in 2014.

Lorelei's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#918	39	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1030	33	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1058	32	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1069	32	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1267	25	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#806	46	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#952	38	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#855	45	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#955	38	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#845	44	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#859	44	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1253	27	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#934	39	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1015	34	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1472	20	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1411	20	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2721	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3218	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3548	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3594	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2868	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1805	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#752	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1997 and 2024, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #752, first reached in 2014.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 46 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2014, and 17 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Loren · #337, 31y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Elizaveta · #752, 22y
Kaylie · #753, 26y
Molly-may · #751, 28y
Abdul-Raheem · #749, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Elizaveta · #752, 22y
Elza · #752, 20y
Tasnia · #752, 25y
Adnaan · #751, 27y

Lorelei was ranked #752 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2014. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Lorelei and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Lorelei without appearing here.

Lorelei moved ahead of

Martine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3218 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1472 and #5707.
Brittany Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2721 and #2487 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1472 and #4688.
Finn Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3382 and #3382 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1472 and #4688.
Lynette Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3548 and #2509 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1411 and #4564.

Moved ahead of Lorelei

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #806 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1267 and #460.
Harper Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2802 and #3725 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #3382 and #2682.
Blake Compare
In 2015 they stood at #845 and #1240 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #955 and #768.
Frida Compare
In 2015 they stood at #845 and #965 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #955 and #955.

Moved the opposite way to Lorelei

Abigail Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lorelei went from #3174 to #918 while Abigail went from #24 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lorelei went from #3174 to #918 while Aimee went from #61 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lorelei went from #3174 to #918 while Aisling went from #496 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lorelei went from #3174 to #918 while Alex went from #179 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Lorelei

Ada Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lorelei went from #3174 to #918 and Ada from #1543 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lorelei went from #3174 to #918 and Alma from #2411 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lorelei went from #3174 to #918 and Alyssa from #506 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lorelei went from #3174 to #918 and Amalie from #3824 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #752 in Republic of Ireland in 2014. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Lorelei

Lorelei at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Lorelei across 2 official records

Lorelei by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Lorelei appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Lorelei at a glance

Lorelei across 2 official records

Lorelei by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Lorelei

Lorelei and the names beside it

Lorelei moved ahead of

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