Given name & surname
Lorette
“crowned with laurel; from the laurel tree”
Lorette is a variant of Loretta. In Italian use, Loretta carries the interpretation “crowned with laurel; from the laurel tree.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Lorette is a variant of Loretta. In Italian use, Loretta carries the interpretation “crowned with laurel; from the laurel tree.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1897. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lorette through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,096
- 0 boys · 1,096 girls
- Most popular year
- 1956
- 46 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 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 46 in 1956. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 856 as a first name in 2020; 338 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lorette’s family of names
Lorette has a related form in Loretta. In French usage, Lorette has a conventional equivalent in the Japanese form ロレット.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
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 Lorette
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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