Baby name
RISING
🇦🇺 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 Lorelei
/LOR · uh · ly/
Meaning
“The Loreley rock on the Rhine”
From the German Loreley, a rocky cliff on the Rhine, where a siren was said to lure sailors to their death; the legend was immortalized by Heinrich Heine's 1824 poem.
Nicknames
lore
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Romantically mythological; the Heine poem gives it literary weight, ages beautifully.
The cultural moment.
Consistently rising in the US, UK, and Australia since around 2010; fashionable across English-speaking countries.