Fun Facts About the Name Loreal
- More than 1 thousand babies named Loreal: U.S. records list 1,720 babies given the name Loreal from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Loreal Mean?
Loreal has no settled etymology as a personal name. The spelling is best known through L'Oréal, the French cosmetics firm founded by Eugène Schueller, whose name goes back to Oréal, the hair dye Schueller sold in the early 1900s. Accounts of that product name differ: it has been connected to French auréole, meaning "halo," and also to a Greek word for "beautiful," but no single derivation is firmly established. Those explanations describe a brand name, not an inherited given name, and there is no documented older name from which the modern given name Loreal is known to descend.
Loreal Name History & Origins
Eugène Schueller, a French chemist, began making a hair dye he called Oréal in 1909 and registered a company that same year; the business and its product came to be known as L'Oréal. Over the following decades the firm grew into one of the world's largest cosmetics companies, and its advertising carried the word into English-speaking countries.
Loreal is used as a feminine given name in the United States, where its spelling matches the brand. It does not correspond to an older European personal name, and its use in English is recent and largely American. Because the only widely documented use of the word is commercial, any link between the given name and the cosmetics name is a matter of spelling and familiarity rather than a recorded naming tradition.
How Popular is the Name Loreal?
Loreal has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 1989. Its best rank was #1,597 in 1985.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #14,227 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2024 | #10,711 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 2023 | #7,112 | 16 | 0.0010% |
| 2022 | #6,118 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 2021 | #6,562 | 18 | 0.0011% |
| 2020 | #5,994 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 2019 | #6,313 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 2018 | #6,684 | 18 | 0.0011% |
| 2017 | #5,002 | 27 | 0.0016% |
| 2016 | #5,902 | 22 | 0.0012% |
| 2015 | #5,055 | 27 | 0.0015% |
| 2014 | #3,258 | 50 | 0.0028% |
| 2013 | #3,296 | 49 | 0.0028% |
| 2012 | #5,815 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 2011 | #5,470 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 2010 | #6,305 | 21 | 0.0012% |
| 2009 | #5,317 | 27 | 0.0015% |
| 2008 | #6,058 | 23 | 0.0012% |
| 2007 | #5,626 | 25 | 0.0013% |
| 2006 | #4,900 | 29 | 0.0015% |
| 2005 | #7,747 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2004 | #6,964 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 2003 | #4,484 | 29 | 0.0016% |
| 2002 | #7,667 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2001 | #5,480 | 21 | 0.0012% |
| 2000 | #5,607 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 1999 | #3,611 | 34 | 0.0019% |
| 1998 | #3,397 | 36 | 0.0020% |
| 1997 | #4,315 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 1996 | #4,130 | 26 | 0.0015% |
| 1995 | #4,045 | 26 | 0.0015% |
| 1994 | #2,647 | 47 | 0.0026% |
| 1993 | #2,187 | 61 | 0.0034% |
| 1992 | #2,172 | 62 | 0.0034% |
| 1991 | #2,259 | 58 | 0.0031% |
| 1990 | #2,278 | 56 | 0.0029% |
| 1989 | #1,660 | 83 | 0.0045% |
| 1988 | #1,781 | 71 | 0.0040% |
| 1987 | #1,758 | 68 | 0.0039% |
| 1986 | #1,610 | 74 | 0.0043% |
| 1985 | #1,597 | 75 | 0.0044% |
| 1984 | #2,008 | 51 | 0.0030% |
| 1983 | #2,293 | 42 | 0.0025% |
| 1982 | #2,560 | 37 | 0.0022% |
| 1981 | #2,755 | 33 | 0.0020% |
| 1980 | #3,373 | 25 | 0.0015% |
| 1979 | #3,207 | 26 | 0.0016% |
| 1978 | #4,571 | 15 | 0.0010% |
| 1977 | #3,995 | 18 | 0.0012% |
| 1976 | #5,426 | 11 | 0.0008% |
| 1975 | #3,581 | 19 | 0.0013% |
| 1974 | #3,795 | 17 | 0.0012% |
| 1973 | #3,568 | 18 | 0.0012% |
| 1971 | #5,335 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1970 | #7,587 | 6 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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