Loreta
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 35 countries · latest register: ISTAT, 2024
/ləɹɛtə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Loreta is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 25th most common given name.
- LTLithuania≈1 in 419(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 3.1K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 1.6Kas Loretta
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Loreta itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 491 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 419 (inferred from the name graph)
91,196 named Loretta, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Lithuania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Loretta in US United States, GB United Kingdom, IT Italy and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Loreta counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #397 | 91,196as Loretta | 1 in 3.6K | 91K | Loretta | 491 |
| PH Philippines | #582 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 26K | Loreta | 56 |
| IT Italy | #624 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 1 | Loretta | 97 |
| GB United Kingdom | #473 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 3 | Loretta | 178 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Loretta | 49 |
| LT Lithuania | #100 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 419 | listed | Loreta | 87 |
| GR Greece | #393 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 1 | Loretta | 26 |
| IE Ireland | #237 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Loretta | 60 |
| JM Jamaica | #25 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Loretta | 8 |
| LV Latvia | — | 1,279 | 1 in 1.5K | 1.3K | Loreta | 31 |
91,196 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); the lt-vlkk-vardai register; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Loreta is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of lōrētum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Loreta Janeta Velazquezb. 1841USAmerican spy
- Carmen de Burgosb. 1867ESnot in their usual nameSpanish writer and journalist, editor (1867–1932)
- Margaret Rudkinb. 1897USnot in their usual nameAmerican businesswoman
- Loreta Bartusevičiūtėb. 1958LTLithuanian ballet dancer
- Loreta Graužinienėb. 1963LTLithuanian politician
- Loreta Anilionytėb. 1963LTLithuanian philosopher, writer and translator
- Loreta Asanavičiūtėb. 1967LTLithuanian victim of violence (died Jan 1991)
- Loreta Gulottab. 1987ITItalian fencer
- Loreta Kullashib. 1999SEassociation football player
- Loreta Lulajb. 2003DEGerman association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)61 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2K | #7,546 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 1.3K | #359 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 1.3K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 5 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4 | #7,546 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 1 | #15,752 |
| LT Lithuania | VLKK — Lietuvos Respublikos piliečių vardų sąvadas (recommended names) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | Il Grande Libro dei Nomi per Bebè (2020) | — | — | — |
| PH Philippines | Tagalog given names (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Loreta?
- In the etymology graph, Loretta and Lorita are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Loreta?
- A machine transcription gives /ləɹɛtə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Loreta a male or female name?
- Loreta is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Albania (INSTAT Albania), Kosovo (ASK Kosovo) and Norway (SSB), among others.
- In which country does Loreta have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 91 thousand people named Loretta, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Loreta?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 1,279 people named Loreta, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Loreta compared with other names?
- In the United States, Loreta is the 397th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Loreta?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/loretaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Loreta” — the 397th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.