Lauretta
2025 SSA
About Lauretta
The first syllable of Laura in Italian rhymes with now, so Lauretta does not really sound like the decidedly midcentury Loretta thought most English speakers will pronounce it that way. Still, this Italian names for girls feels more closely related to the classic beauty Laura and somehow more charming and unusual.
Pronounced lor-ET-uh.
As of October 2026, Lauretta ranked #9210 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #352 in 1904.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Lauretta on lists
Famous Laurettas
- Lauretta Ngcobo
South African novelist
- Lauretta Masiero
Italian actress
- Lauretta Vivian Lamptey
Ghanaian lawyer and politician
- Lauretta M Schimmoler
aviatrix and first American woman to establish an airport
- Lauretta of Saarbrücken
sovereign Countess of Saarbrücken; daughter of Count Simon III
- Lauretta Hannon
American radio personality
Lauretta in pop culture
- Lauretta
daughter of Justice Credulous and his wife Bridget in the Richard Brinsley Sheridan play "St Patrick's Day" (1775)
- Lauretta
one of the seven young women at the heart of Boccaccio's "The Decameron" (alongside Pampinea, Fiammetta, Filomena, Emilia, Neifile (Nephele), and Elissa)