Lorilee
Feminine
Lorilee joins two short forms and has no formal version at all. Both halves are already nicknames, which means the name is entirely informal from end to end — unusual for a double name.
How old is the name Lorilee?
Lorilee first appears in US birth records in 1938 — 87 years ago. The typical Lorilee alive today was born around 1963, making them about 62 years old. About 700 people named Lorilee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lorilee most popular?
Lorilee peaked in 1960, reaching #1695 nationally. See the whole 1960 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Lorilee
Double names usually pair something formal with something warm: a saint's name and a family one, a long name and a short one. This kind pairs two short ones, which produces a name that has no dress version — there is nothing to fall back on at a graduation or on a business card, because neither half was ever a formal name. That is a real choice rather than an oversight, and the generation that made it was making it deliberately: a name that could not be stiffened, for daughters who were not expected to need stiffening. It reads as friendly for exactly that reason, and it is the hardest kind of name to make sound severe.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The front is a short form of Laura, Lorraine or Delores, none of which can be identified; the back is a syllable that arrived in American naming from three unrelated directions. Neither half carries a meaning in its own right.
Pronouncing Lorilee
LOR-ee-lee
Three syllables with a light stress at the front and a second at the end, because it is genuinely two names.
Nicknames for Lorilee
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1938
- Most girls named
- 196044 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1695reached in 1960
- Change vs 1998
- 0.0%5 in 2018, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Lorilees among us
people named Lorilee are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Lorilee sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is warm on sight and easy for anybody to say.
- Both halves can be used alone and both are established names.
- It is read correctly the first time.
- It will frequently be written as two words.
- There is no formal version available, which occasionally matters.
- The name places its bearer in a particular American generation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lorilees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Lorilee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lorilee in 2025?
- Lorilee is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Lorilee with classmates?
- Lorilee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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