Lorelei

girls:

16.8k births since 1916

#1152 (80th percentile)

overall:

16.8k births since 1916

#1992 (74th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lorelei".

1916 2023 19162023

Key Statistics

Total Births
16,792
Peak Births
716
Peak Year
2021
First Recorded
1916
Peak Percentile
58.4%
Current Percentile
54.2%
Peak Rank
#390
Current Rank
#434
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Lorelei

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Lorelei. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 45.1% confident that Lorelei is pronounced as LAW-ruh-lai. The next most likely pronunciation is LAW-ruh-LAI, at 39.2% confidence.

LAW-rih-lai (3 syllables)
Verified
15.7% confidence
L AO1 R IH0 L AY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like L AO1 R AH0 L AY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.