Name meaning & stats
Lorelei
Lorelei (German origin). 17,676 US babies since 1940, peak 2016.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
German
In US birth records
Peak year: 2016
17,676 US babies were named Lorelei between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Lorelei (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 53% of the family
- Lorelei 53%
- Lorelai 31%
- Loralei 5%
- Loralie 3%
- Loreli 2%
- Loralai 1%
- Lorali 1%
- Lorelie 1%
- Lorilei 1%
- Loralye 1%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2016)