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The first name 
Lauretta

Lauretta is a first name for girls.

Lauretta – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Lauretta in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Lauretta in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Lauretta by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Lauretta ranks at #9,590. That means there are 9,589 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Lauretta.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Lauretta

Lauretta -
a special name with a long history

Lauretta is not one of the particularly popular names, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 2011, where the name Lauretta was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Lauretta and were born in the USA in 2011 please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the last century, Lauretta even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1904, it ranked on position 341 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Lauretta was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Happy Birthday - 10 girls named Lauretta celebrate their second birthday this year

Even though the popularity of the name Lauretta has fluctuated in the past and there were years when the name was almost not chosen at all by expectant parents, it has without question arrived in the 21st century. In 2022, the name was given a remarkable 10 times by young parents to their newborn daughters and thus landed at #8,408 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular girls' names. Nevertheless, the name is still so rare that the 10 girls named Lauretta, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is most likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children who turn around when someone calls 'Lauretta'.

Lauretta -
special, but at home in many states

You may not know anyone named Lauretta, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 36 states are home to women and girls named Lauretta. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Lauretta living in one state or another. If your name is Lauretta and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Massachusetts, which has the most people named Lauretta relative to the population, you still have to ask 8,629 women and girls their names before you hear Lauretta as an answer just once.

Lauretta has 8 letters 
and begins with an L

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.

With eight letters, the name Lauretta is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Lauretta

If your name is Lauretta and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Lauretta

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Lauretta, you can simply say:

Lion

Apple

Unicorn

Rocket

Elephant

Tiger

Tiger

Apple

This is how the name Lauretta is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Lauretta in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Lauretta

Lauretta

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Lauretta

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Lauretta is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

L
A
U
R
E
T
T
A

Have you ever waved the name Lauretta

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

L
A
U
R
E
T
T
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Lauretta sounds like this: