Loretta

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Loretta: Recorded since 1964, its highest recorded position is #180, and it stood at #790 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
58times a registrar ranked it
61years from first to last
#180highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1222
1997	#946
1998	#995
1999	#1160
2000	#2416
2001	#1305
2002	#1928
2003	#1843
2004	#1836
2005	#3382
2006	#2781
2007	#3218
2008	#1447
2009	#2019
2010	#1472
2011	#3185
2012	#2521
2013	#2062
2014	#1798
2015	#2195
2016	#2966
2017	#2090
2018	#1977
2019	#2286
2020	#1397
2021	#1351
2022	#876
2023	#1371
2024	#1302

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #790 among girls in Scotland, #1302 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1964–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1964
First recorded at #180 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1964 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1964–1991
Highest recorded position: #180 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1964 (recorded 1964–1991).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1302 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Loretta appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 432 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1964.

Loretta 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.

Loretta'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	#1222 (1996)	#876 (2022)	#1302 (2024)	29 of 29	432 (1996–2024)	40 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#180 (1964)	#180 (1964)	#393 (1991)	28 of 28	339 (1964–1991)	20 (1978)

Loretta 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 Loretta in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	75	4 of 10	19
2000s	100	10 of 10	10
2010s	124	10 of 10	12
2020sbusiest	133	5 of 10	27

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 27 births a year.

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

Loretta 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 3 regions, from 1964 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #180 in Republic of Ireland in 1964.

Loretta'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	#1302	25	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1371	23	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#876	40	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1351	23	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1397	22	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2286	11	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1977	14	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2090	13	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2966	8	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2195	12	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1798	16	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2062	13	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2521	10	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3185	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1472	20	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2019	12	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1447	19	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3218	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2781	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1836	11	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1843	10	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1928	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1305	15	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2416	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1160	17	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#995	21	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#946	22	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1222	15	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#393	6	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#321	9	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#408	5	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#359	7	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	female	#296	11	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#356	7	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#292	11	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#308	10	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#476	4	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#324	10	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#237	20	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#311	11	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#253	17	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#230	20	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#262	14	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#236	18	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#228	18	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#245	17	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#271	13	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#259	13	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#277	10	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#272	10	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#237	13	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#207	16	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#288	6	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#207	14	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	female	#221	11	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	female	#180	18	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

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

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1964 and 2024, ranked in 57 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #180, first reached in 1964.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 40 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 60 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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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Cait · #178, 53y
Katrin · #182, 60y
Kilian · #184, 54y
Patrik · #176, 57y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Cathriona · #180, 36y
Cecil · #181, 38y
Collette · #179, 49y
Conrad · #181, 45y

Loretta was ranked #180 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1964. 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.

Loretta 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 Loretta without appearing here.

Loretta moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2286 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1397 and #5493.
Yvonne Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2090 and #2090 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1977 and #5666.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1977 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2286 and #5591.
Denise Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2286 and #2040 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1397 and #4535.

Moved ahead of Loretta

Rita Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1472 and #1653 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #3185 and #1067.
Riley Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1305 and #1439 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1928 and #822.
Audrey Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1160 and #1317 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #2416 and #1313.
Mila Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1160 and #2189 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #2416 and #1313.

Moved the opposite way to Loretta

Aisling Compare
Between 1964 and 1991 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Loretta went from #180 to #393 while Aisling went from #154 to #8.
Alison Compare
Between 1964 and 1991 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Loretta went from #180 to #393 while Alison went from #146 to #39.
Amanda Compare
Between 1964 and 1991 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Loretta went from #180 to #393 while Amanda went from #118 to #39.
Aoife Compare
Between 1964 and 1991 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Loretta went from #180 to #393 while Aoife went from #206 to #4.

Moved the same way as Loretta

Alice Compare
Between 1964 and 1991 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Loretta went from #180 to #393 and Alice from #57 to #99.
Amelia Compare
Between 1964 and 1991 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Loretta went from #180 to #393 and Amelia from #300 to #457.
Angela Compare
Between 1964 and 1991 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Loretta went from #180 to #393 and Angela from #24 to #133.
Ann Compare
Between 1964 and 1991 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Loretta went from #180 to #393 and Ann from #4 to #54.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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 3 regions, from 1964 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #180 in Republic of Ireland in 1964. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Loretta

Loretta at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Loretta across 2 official records

Loretta by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Loretta appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

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Loretta at a glance

Loretta across 2 official records

Loretta by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Loretta appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Loretta

Loretta and the names beside it

Loretta moved ahead of

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