Lorilei
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 9 babies a year in the US.
Lorilei by the numbers
Lorilei was given to 9 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 13 babies in 1968, making it a 1960s name.
What we can tell you about Lorilei
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Lorilei. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Loreleimurmuring rock; a Rhine river siren680 in the US (2017)
- Loraleimurmuring rock; a form of lorelei67 in the US (2017)
- Lorelaialluring enchantress; a form of Lorelei563 in the US (2017)
- Lorielaurel; a form of Laura12 in the US (2017)
- Loraleelaurel crowned; a form of Laurel11 in the US (2017)
- Lorelimurmuring rock; variant of Lorelei10 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Lorilei
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