Lorella
Lorella is a name with a single cultural origin: Italian.
- Italian
Meaning & Origin of Lorella
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Lorella is a name with a single cultural origin: Italian.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Italian
The Story of Lorella
Lorella first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1915, with 9 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1934: 14 births, good for #2,187 nationwide. About 24% of every Lorella on record arrived during the 1930s, its defining decade. Lorella last appeared in the published SSA data in 1976, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 347 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1910s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Lorella
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About the name Lorella
Lorella is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1915 and has accumulated 347 births in the dataset. Lorella's peak popularity came in 1934 when it ranked #2,187. Use the chart and map above to compare Lorella's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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