girls:
21 births since 1924
#5695 (0th percentile)
boys:
494 births since 1915
#4092 (11th percentile)
overall:
515 births since 1915
#7224 (7th percentile)
The name Loreto is the #7,224 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 515 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 6.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,092 (10.7% percentile) for all time with 494 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,695 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 21 births since 1924.
Loreto first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1924 for girls). Birth data for Loreto is available in 68 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023 (68 years for boys and 4 years for girls). 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 Loreto has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 64.3% of babies named Loreto were boys.
For boys, Loreto reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #522) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 13 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Loreto ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 38.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Loreto reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #742) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for girls has remained relatively stable. Currently, Loreto ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 74.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Loreto".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Loreto. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.4% confident that Loreto is pronounced as law-REH-toh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ler-EH-toh, at 22.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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