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Name Loreley

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From Old High German words for ambush, lure and cliff, schistous cliff

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About the name Loreley in particular

Gender:	female
Languages of use:	German, English
Topics:	Asteroid 165 Loreley, diameter 155.17 km, period 7.226 years
Popularity:	no rank in any popularity list in this database
Similarly written:	Lorelei, Loreen, Lorelai, Lorella, Lorene Details

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About Loreley, the group of names with the same origin as Loreley

Language of origin:	Old High German
Info about origin:	originally the name of a schistous cliff standing out of the river Rhine near St.Goarshausen in Germany
	the poet Clemens Brentano created 1801 Lore Lay as a siren sitting on this cliff luring sailors to ther deaths by singing
	the meaning of the name is not known for sure, maybe ambush + cliff
Words:	lure = the ambush, the lure Old High German
	lei = the cliff, the schistous cliff Old High German
Topics:	Geographic name
Variants' top ranks:	402:Lorelai USA 2024, 441:Lorelei USA 2022
Name variants:	Lorelai, Lorelei, Loreley Sortable list Details