Loreta

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Loretta in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 14 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Loreta is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name1.3K records spelled Loreta2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Netherlands

  Also written Lorêta

• Russian given name158 records spelled Loreta6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, United States, Türkiye

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Лорета, Loréta

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Loreta is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of lōrētum

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 83 years between 1900–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Loreta Janeta Velazquezb. 1841USAmerican spy
• Carmen de Burgosb. 1867ESnot in their usual nameSpanish writer and journalist, editor (1867–1932)
• Margaret Rudkinb. 1897USnot in their usual nameAmerican businesswoman
• Loreta Bartusevičiūtėb. 1958LTLithuanian ballet dancer
• Loreta Graužinienėb. 1963LTLithuanian politician
• Loreta Anilionytėb. 1963LTLithuanian philosopher, writer and translator
• Loreta Asanavičiūtėb. 1967LTLithuanian victim of violence (died Jan 1991)
• Loreta Gulottab. 1987ITItalian fencer
• Loreta Kullashib. 1999SEassociation football player
• Loreta Lulajb. 2003DEGerman association football player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 520 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Loreta?

We estimate roughly 94 thousand people bear Loreta (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Loreta have the most bearers?

We estimate about 91 thousand people bear Loreta in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled loretta.

Where is Loreta most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Loreta is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 1.5 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is Loreta compared with other names?

In the United States, Loreta is the 394th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Loreta a male or female name?

Loreta is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.