Loretto is traditionally a female first name but has increasingly been given as a boys’ name in recent years.
Recently, the name Loretto has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Loretto. That means that a girl named Loretto is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Loretto.
The first name Loretto is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 34 Americans in total bear this name. And these 34 women are located in only three states: Missouri, New York and Pennsylvania (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Loretto and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Loretto in relation to it’s female population is New York. And yet even there, only one in 518,840 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Loretto.
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 seven letters, the name Loretto has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are 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.
If your name is Loretto 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Loretto, you can simply say:
Lion
Orange
Rocket
Elephant
Tiger
Tiger
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Loretto
Loretto
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
O
R
E
T
T
O
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
O
R
E
T
T
O
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. Loretto sounds like this:
