Meaning not yet researched.
Lois: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 124 in 2025. Its best rank was #17 in 1930.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #17 in 1930; #1,670 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lois in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,670 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1930, at #17.
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Lois: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 124 girls in 2025. Peak: #17 in 1930 · most girls in one year: 10,505 (1927).
In 2025, 124 US girls were named Lois, making it the 1,670th most common girls’ name of the year, up 20 places from #1,690 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 121 girls named Lois in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #17, reached in 1930. The most girls given the name in a single year was 10,505, in 1927. For comparison, it was #1,880 in 2015 and #83 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lois in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 53 babies with the name. In all, 335,594 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 88,830 babies named Lois.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,226 US girls were named Lois; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 134. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,962 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lois ranked highest in Tennessee in 2025, at #1,071 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Louise (338,662 babies since 1880), Luis (294,500 babies since 1880), Louie (33,338 babies since 1880) and Aloysius (5,724 babies since 1880). The open nickname list we use links it to Lou and Louise.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, English and Welsh. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Lois is listed as a nickname for Heloise, Louisa, Louise.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,071 | — |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,111 | #1,513 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,171 | #1,045 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,536 | #1,383 |
| Texas | 15 | #1,585 | #2,762 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,694 | — |
| New York | 6 | #1,966 | #1,704 |
| Florida | 6 | #2,051 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 124 | #1,670 | — | — |
| 2024 | 121 | #1,690 | — | — |
| 2023 | 132 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 2022 | 124 | #1,690 | — | — |
| 2021 | 120 | #1,726 | 6 | #11,596 |
| 2020 | 106 | #1,846 | — | — |
| 2019 | 124 | #1,693 | — | — |
| 2018 | 122 | #1,701 | — | — |
| 2017 | 134 | #1,622 | — | — |
| 2016 | 119 | #1,751 | — | — |
| 2015 | 109 | #1,880 | — | — |
| 2014 | 101 | #1,973 | — | — |
| 2013 | 78 | #2,359 | — | — |
| 2012 | 94 | #2,054 | — | — |
| 2011 | 72 | #2,525 | — | — |
| 2010 | 70 | #2,602 | — | — |
| 2009 | 80 | #2,412 | — | — |
| 2008 | 85 | #2,307 | — | — |
| 2007 | 82 | #2,342 | — | — |
| 2006 | 87 | #2,219 | 5 | #13,233 |
| 2005 | 65 | #2,616 | — | — |
| 2004 | 64 | #2,615 | — | — |
| 2003 | 73 | #2,313 | 7 | #9,252 |
| 2002 | 85 | #2,042 | — | — |
| 2001 | 84 | #2,026 | — | — |
| 2000 | 78 | #2,095 | 6 | #9,840 |
| 1999 | 76 | #2,047 | — | — |
| 1998 | 88 | #1,784 | — | — |
| 1997 | 100 | #1,600 | — | — |
| 1996 | 94 | #1,634 | — | — |
| 1995 | 98 | #1,555 | — | — |
| 1994 | 96 | #1,587 | — | — |
| 1993 | 91 | #1,660 | — | — |
| 1992 | 85 | #1,747 | 6 | #8,045 |
| 1991 | 109 | #1,458 | 6 | #7,860 |
| 1990 | 93 | #1,613 | 8 | #6,186 |
| 1989 | 117 | #1,330 | 6 | #7,538 |
| 1988 | 120 | #1,242 | 8 | #5,517 |
| 1987 | 110 | #1,277 | 13 | #3,654 |
| 1986 | 123 | #1,162 | 5 | #7,393 |
| 1985 | 129 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 1984 | 135 | #1,049 | — | — |
| 1983 | 148 | #985 | 5 | #6,897 |
| 1982 | 175 | #882 | — | — |
| 1981 | 187 | #836 | — | — |
| 1980 | 153 | #972 | 5 | #6,864 |
| 1979 | 174 | #880 | — | — |
| 1978 | 201 | #770 | 5 | #6,392 |
| 1977 | 183 | #821 | — | — |
| 1976 | 189 | #763 | 10 | #3,628 |
| 1975 | 222 | #676 | — | — |
| 1974 | 284 | #569 | 5 | #5,687 |
| 1973 | 311 | #540 | 8 | #3,923 |
| 1972 | 343 | #507 | 5 | #5,448 |
| 1971 | 460 | #447 | 10 | #3,282 |
| 1970 | 517 | #427 | 9 | #3,426 |
| 1969 | 565 | #403 | 7 | #3,802 |
| 1968 | 669 | #340 | 8 | #3,267 |
| 1967 | 755 | #315 | 5 | #4,320 |
| 1966 | 918 | #278 | 10 | #2,722 |
| 1965 | 1,204 | #249 | 7 | #3,428 |
| 1964 | 1,408 | #231 | 13 | #2,371 |
| 1963 | 1,580 | #217 | 10 | #2,787 |
| 1962 | 1,783 | #201 | 11 | #2,605 |
| 1961 | 2,103 | #183 | 8 | #3,258 |
| 1960 | 2,269 | #175 | 12 | #2,487 |
| 1959 | 2,485 | #162 | 12 | #2,489 |
| 1958 | 2,626 | #154 | 7 | #3,453 |
| 1957 | 2,877 | #145 | 19 | #1,872 |
| 1956 | 3,225 | #135 | 11 | #2,579 |
| 1955 | 3,418 | #124 | 12 | #2,386 |
| 1954 | 3,952 | #110 | 22 | #1,654 |
| 1953 | 4,219 | #91 | 20 | #1,752 |
| 1952 | 4,361 | #86 | 15 | #2,047 |
| 1951 | 4,533 | #85 | 12 | #2,321 |
| 1950 | 4,504 | #83 | 17 | #1,858 |
| 1949 | 4,915 | #73 | 21 | #1,648 |
| 1948 | 5,077 | #70 | 8 | #2,928 |
| 1947 | 5,717 | #63 | 23 | #1,579 |
| 1946 | 5,700 | #55 | 19 | #1,676 |
| 1945 | 5,148 | #48 | 21 | #1,477 |
| 1944 | 5,529 | #47 | 33 | #1,165 |
| 1943 | 6,132 | #43 | 36 | #1,148 |
| 1942 | 6,406 | #44 | 52 | #926 |
| 1941 | 6,105 | #43 | 38 | #1,064 |
| 1940 | 6,125 | #38 | 37 | #1,087 |
| 1939 | 6,034 | #35 | 52 | #851 |
| 1938 | 6,502 | #33 | 52 | #864 |
| 1937 | 6,932 | #29 | 44 | #951 |
| 1936 | 7,232 | #26 | 39 | #1,023 |
| 1935 | 7,990 | #21 | 57 | #826 |
| 1934 | 8,387 | #20 | 65 | #767 |
| 1933 | 8,655 | #19 | 76 | #681 |
| 1932 | 9,519 | #20 | 88 | #646 |
| 1931 | 9,348 | #20 | 78 | #681 |
| 1930 | 10,114 | #17 | 87 | #670 |
| 1929 | 10,295 | #17 | 77 | #710 |
| 1928 | 10,425 | #18 | 76 | #736 |
| 1927 | 10,505 | #19 | 82 | #718 |
| 1926 | 9,816 | #19 | 56 | #900 |
| 1925 | 9,573 | #18 | 67 | #813 |
| 1924 | 9,300 | #22 | 73 | #790 |
| 1923 | 7,814 | #27 | 75 | #761 |
| 1922 | 6,946 | #35 | 61 | #887 |
| 1921 | 6,899 | #38 | 74 | #785 |
| 1920 | 6,560 | #38 | 56 | #926 |
| 1919 | 5,976 | #40 | 76 | #733 |
| 1918 | 5,877 | #42 | 62 | #835 |
| 1917 | 5,485 | #43 | 59 | #838 |
| 1916 | 5,149 | #43 | 72 | #705 |
| 1915 | 4,775 | #47 | 67 | #727 |
| 1914 | 3,432 | #51 | 58 | #670 |
| 1913 | 2,560 | #59 | 47 | #656 |
| 1912 | 2,146 | #63 | 30 | #810 |
| 1911 | 1,508 | #68 | 11 | #1,091 |
| 1910 | 1,271 | #76 | 15 | #807 |
| 1909 | 1,157 | #73 | 22 | #566 |
| 1908 | 1,023 | #80 | 16 | #672 |
| 1907 | 899 | #85 | 13 | #764 |
| 1906 | 799 | #88 | 16 | #605 |
| 1905 | 763 | #88 | 8 | #975 |
| 1904 | 727 | #90 | 8 | #930 |
| 1903 | 664 | #92 | 8 | #883 |
| 1902 | 594 | #98 | 7 | #986 |
| 1901 | 488 | #109 | 6 | #1,010 |
| 1900 | 577 | #115 | 10 | #880 |
| 1899 | 415 | #117 | 8 | #832 |
| 1898 | 466 | #114 | 8 | #853 |
| 1897 | 457 | #111 | 6 | #1,017 |
| 1896 | 388 | #123 | — | — |
| 1895 | 311 | #144 | — | — |
| 1894 | 308 | #140 | 7 | #917 |
| 1893 | 260 | #152 | — | — |
| 1892 | 242 | #160 | 5 | #1,178 |
| 1891 | 206 | #162 | — | — |
| 1890 | 175 | #178 | — | — |
| 1889 | 154 | #185 | — | — |
| 1888 | 120 | #206 | — | — |
| 1887 | 129 | #176 | — | — |
| 1886 | 116 | #187 | — | — |
| 1885 | 105 | #183 | — | — |
| 1884 | 84 | #207 | — | — |
| 1883 | 76 | #195 | — | — |
| 1882 | 64 | #211 | — | — |
| 1881 | 53 | #205 | — | — |
| 1880 | 53 | #211 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).