Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Lorella isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lorella through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 347
- 0 boys · 347 girls
- Most popular year
- 1934
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1976. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 14 in 1934. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 309 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lorella’s family of names
Lorella may belong to the same name family as LORELA. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Lorella
- Lorella De LucaItalian film, television, and voice actress (1940-2014)
- Lorella CuccariniItalian actress, singer and dancerborn 1965
- Lorella StefanelliSammarinese politician and lawyerborn 1959
- Lorella ZanardoItalian writerborn 1957
- Lorella CravottaFrench actressborn 1958
- Lorella FlegoSlovenian television presenterborn 1974
- Lorella CedroniItalian political philosopher (1961-2013)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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