girls:
288 births since 1939
#5428 (5th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1938
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
293 births since 1938
#7446 (4th percentile)
The name Lorel is the #7,446 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 293 recorded births since 1938. This represents the 3.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,428 (5.0% percentile) for all time with 288 births since 1939. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1938.
Lorel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1938 (1938 for boys and 1939 for girls). Birth data for Lorel is available in 39 out of the 86 years between 1938 and 2023 (38 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Lorel has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.3% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1943, the name was more popular for boys (50.0% boys from 1938 to 1942), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 1943 to 2023).
For girls, Lorel reached its peak popularity in 1956, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #737) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1949, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lorel ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 38.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lorel reached its peak popularity in 1938, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #524) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1938, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1938.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lorel".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Lorel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.4% confident that Lorel is pronounced as law-REHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LAW-rehl, at 34.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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