Lulu
Lulu is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 45 births. Its best rank was 76th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 450.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1886376 births
- Best rank
- #76in 1881
- Since 1880
- 12,656people given the name
The story in the numbers
12,656 girls have been named Lulu in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1886, with 376 births — 0.26% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 45 births in 2024, against 376 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1902, and the 1880s alone account for 26%. It has spent 59 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 7 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lulu | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 3,253 | |
| 1890s | 2,659 | |
| 1900s | 1,376 | |
| 1910s | 1,484 | |
| 1920s | 1,221 | |
| 1930s | 647 | |
| 1940s | 276 | |
| 1950s | 213 | |
| 1960s | 145 | |
| 1970s | 113 | |
| 1980s | 31 | |
| 1990s | 79 | |
| 2000s | 302 | |
| 2010s | 565 | |
| 2020s | 292 |
In 1886, its biggest year
Lulu was the 90th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1886 were Mary, Anna, Emma, Elizabeth and Minnie. See all of 1886.
Names that rose and fell with Lulu
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Maudpeak 1886
- Maudepeak 1888
- Kittiepeak 1889
- Dociapeak 1890
- Mertiepeak 1918
- Bellepeak 1915
- Mintapeak 1921
- Lidapeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.