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How popular is the name Loretta?
Births per year, rank history and how many Lorettas are alive today.
Loretta (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 894th in 2025 with 39 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2022, when 40 babies were given the name, the 876th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 1371 in 2023 before climbing back to the 894th place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years.
The Loretta you are most likely to meet is around 3 years old - or else around 28: the name has two living generations. Half of all Lorettas born in England and Wales are between 5 and 28, and there are at least 570 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Loretta - on average, only one in every 553 such rooms contains a Loretta.
How many babies are named Loretta each year?
Where does Loretta rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Loretta most popular?
Loretta peaked in 2022, when 40 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Loretta?
At least 570 people named Loretta born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Loretta?
Most living Lorettas are between 5 and 28; the most common age is about 3. There is a second cluster around 28.
Is Loretta becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.