Loreley
Girl · LOR-eh-ly · Germanic
Loreley is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “murmuring rock”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Loreley mean?
Germanic: German spelling of Lorelei
“murmuring rock”
The Lorelei is a rock on the Rhine, linked in legend to a siren whose singing lured boatmen to their deaths.
- Say it
- LOR-eh-ly
Is Loreley a girl's or a boy's name?
Loreley is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Loreley in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #14,937among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Loreley, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 2006.
Half of all the girls named Loreley in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 138 girls in the US were given Loreley or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,355, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
Loreley in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,510 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,606 |
Nicknames for Loreley
- Lori 23 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Loreley
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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