Lauretta
Lauretta is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 14 births. Its best rank was 352nd, in 1904.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 140.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1915224 births
- Best rank
- #352in 1904
- Since 1880
- 9,699people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,699 girls have been named Lauretta in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 224 births.
The name has all but left use: 14 births in 2024, against 224 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 18%. It has spent 79 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lauretta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 173 | |
| 1890s | 464 | |
| 1900s | 654 | |
| 1910s | 1,621 | |
| 1920s | 1,776 | |
| 1930s | 1,223 | |
| 1940s | 1,200 | |
| 1950s | 1,256 | |
| 1960s | 673 | |
| 1970s | 241 | |
| 1980s | 157 | |
| 1990s | 94 | |
| 2000s | 48 | |
| 2010s | 63 | |
| 2020s | 56 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Lauretta was the 402nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1915 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Lauretta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mariepeak 1920
- Cecilepeak 1918
- Fredapeak 1918
- Leathapeak 1916
- Nevapeak 1920
- Lethapeak 1918
- Letapeak 1918
- Hildapeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.