Loretta

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Loretta is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 13th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A female given name from Latin, variant of Lauretta, Italian diminutive of Laura; or a form of Loreto.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia1 in 1.5K◐
  • JMJamaica1 in 1.6K
  • SGSingapore1 in 3.2K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈94K ●

across 8 countries

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
436 ●

1.4M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.5K ◐

Latvia

Spellings & scripts●

LorettaLatin · English●1.3M records
ЛореттаCyrillic · Russian●996 records
ᲚორეტაGeorgian · Georgian●255 records
ΛορεταGreek · Greek●11 records
ԼորետաArmenian · Armenian●2 records
로레타Hangul · Korean●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Loreta in PH Philippines, BR Brazil, AR Argentina and 9 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●

A female given name from Latin, variant of Lauretta, Italian diminutive of Laura; or a form of Loreto.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Loretta is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#39491,1061.1M rec.1 in 3.7K91KLoretta436
GB United Kingdom#44656,17555K rec.—3Loretta133
PH Philippines#54340,47338K rec.—26KLoreta50
AU Australia#53827,01725K rec.—35Loretta158
CA Canada#45724,44924K rec.—1Loretta149
IT Italy#58610,31710K rec.—1Loretta101
AR Argentina—6,2675.1K rec.—2Loreta38
DE Germany—6,1436K rec.—1Loretta98
RU Russia—4,1563.7K rec.——Loretta71
SG Singapore#1893,3843.5K rec.——Loretta33
LT Lithuania#1652,9741.5K rec.—listedLoreta84
JM Jamaica#132,8913K rec.——Loretta8

Roughly 91K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 3.7K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English1.3M81%
  • 68K4%
  • Spanish49K3%
  • German24K2%
  • Italian15K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English1,251,33081%
67,5754%
Spanish48,6793%
German24,4072%
Italian14,5411%

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

Other recorded senses●

Loretta is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, weibl. Vom., italienische Koseform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • variant of Loreto.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • English: variant of LAURETTA , normally borne by Catholics, among whom it is associated with LORETO .

    as a word

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●

01K2K3K4K1900195020003.9K · 1938

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Loretta in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188041
188158
188272
188376
188494
188591
1886141
1887134
1888157
1889172
1890228
1891212
1892263
1893323
1894330
1895365
1896391
1897406
1898454
1899410
1900535
1901438
1902461
1903505
1904506
1905527
1906520
1907520
1908566
1909573
1910655
1911739
1912978
19131,074
19141,323
19151,810
19161,903
19171,970
19182,051
19192,067
19202,122
19212,134
19222,095
19232,143
19242,261
19252,255
19262,108
19272,018
19281,996
19291,939
19302,482
19312,581
19322,746
19332,705
19342,978
19353,365
19363,325
19373,673
19383,913
19393,769
19403,502
19413,100
19423,406
19433,169
19442,746
19452,661
19462,892
19473,001
19482,868
19492,776
19502,720
19512,489
19522,616
19532,666
19543,245
19553,431
19563,407
19573,350
19583,314
19593,156
19603,191
19612,922
19622,513
19632,507
19642,228
19651,839
19661,899
19671,803
19681,627
19691,541
19701,365
19711,304
19721,047
1973972
1974956
1975778
1976671
1977571
1978481
1979495
1980418
1981487
1982413
1983347
1984309
1985287
1986297
1987269
1988251
1989201
1990207
1991184
1992141
1993137
1994135
1995124
1996139
1997109
1998102
1999102
200092
200177
200276
200380
200490
2005103
2006113
2007105
2008112
200984
201097
2011111
2012124
2013121
2014179
2015219
2016240
2017229
2018232
2019252
2020272
2021300
2022346
2023371
2024423
2025485

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19001920194019601980Loretta Young, b. 1913Loretta Lynn, b. 1932Loretta Swit, b. 1937Loretta Long, b. 1938Loretta Devine, b. 1949Loretta Goggi, b. 1950Mary Landrieu, b. 1955Loretta Lynch, b. 1959Loretta Sanchez, b. 1960Loretta Harrop, b. 1975

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●

Attested in 76 sources across 44 countries.

Official registers attesting Loretta
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202091K#583
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025485—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010321#62,359
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020308#68,789
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000294#63,450
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025234#365
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—167#6,035
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022155—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—155#30,402
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2001150#2,151
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—138#1,267
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026138#1,267

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 639 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Loretta?
We estimate roughly 94 thousand people bear Loretta (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Loretta have the most bearers?
We estimate about 91 thousand people bear Loretta in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled loretta.
Where is Loretta most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Loretta 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 Loretta compared with other names?
In the United States, Loretta is the 394th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Loretta a male or female name?
Loretta 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.
What does the name Loretta mean?
Recorded meaning: A female given name from Latin, variant of Lauretta, Italian diminutive of Laura; or a form of Loreto.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Loretta” — the 394th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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