Meaning not yet researched.
Lotus: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 110 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,025 in 1896.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,025 in 1896; #1,826 in 2025. About 83% of babies named Lotus in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,826 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1896, at #1,025.
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Lotus: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 110 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,025 in 1896 · most girls in one year: 140 (2023).
In 2025, 110 US girls were named Lotus, making it the 1,826th most common girls’ name of the year, down 173 places from #1,653 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 125 girls named Lotus in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,025, reached in 1896. The most girls given the name in a single year was 140, in 2023. For comparison, it was #2,307 in 2015 and #2,850 in 1950.
In 2025, 22 US boys were named Lotus, making it the 4,631st most common boys’ name of the year, up 355 places from #4,986 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 20 boys named Lotus in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,667, reached in 1915. The most boys given the name in a single year was 26, in 2021. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lotus in 101 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1896 with 11 babies. In all, 2,978 US babies have been given the name, 93% of them girls and 7.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 893 babies named Lotus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,112 US girls were named Lotus; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 140. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,612 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lotus ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #958 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Lotis are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lotis (23).
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.
No nicknames listed for Lotus in the open dataset we use.
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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 10 | #958 | — |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,127 | — |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,230 | — |
| California | 16 | #1,453 | #1,629 |
| New York | 8 | #1,600 | #2,410 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,355 | #2,284 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,546 | #3,116 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 110 | #1,826 | 22 | #4,631 |
| 2024 | 125 | #1,653 | 20 | #4,986 |
| 2023 | 140 | #1,528 | 19 | #5,177 |
| 2022 | 117 | #1,771 | 14 | #6,355 |
| 2021 | 139 | #1,521 | 26 | #4,085 |
| 2020 | 86 | #2,128 | 12 | #6,870 |
| 2019 | 87 | #2,150 | 14 | #6,291 |
| 2018 | 101 | #1,961 | 8 | #9,319 |
| 2017 | 117 | #1,786 | 10 | #7,922 |
| 2016 | 90 | #2,163 | 7 | #10,321 |
| 2015 | 81 | #2,307 | — | — |
| 2014 | 93 | #2,086 | 5 | #13,282 |
| 2013 | 95 | #2,045 | 5 | #13,298 |
| 2012 | 69 | #2,616 | 5 | #13,449 |
| 2011 | 49 | #3,336 | 5 | #13,560 |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,185 | — | — |
| 2009 | 64 | #2,795 | 6 | #11,899 |
| 2008 | 52 | #3,246 | 5 | #13,795 |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,758 | — | — |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,529 | — | — |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,165 | 5 | #12,594 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,315 | — | — |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,208 | — | — |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,033 | — | — |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,181 | — | — |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,340 | — | — |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,212 | — | — |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,999 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,761 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,216 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,733 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,797 | — | — |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,271 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,008 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,846 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,247 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,504 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,380 | — | — |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,820 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,136 | — | — |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,261 | — | — |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,400 | — | — |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,301 | — | — |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,030 | — | — |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,236 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,111 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,198 | — | — |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,474 | — | — |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,822 | — | — |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,628 | — | — |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,796 | — | — |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,683 | — | — |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,941 | — | — |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,861 | — | — |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,995 | — | — |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,629 | — | — |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,850 | — | — |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,780 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,761 | — | — |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,820 | — | — |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,287 | — | — |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,330 | — | — |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,172 | — | — |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,119 | — | — |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,806 | — | — |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,165 | — | — |
| 1939 | 17 | #2,004 | — | — |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,675 | — | — |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,965 | — | — |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,341 | — | — |
| 1935 | 20 | #1,746 | — | — |
| 1934 | 16 | #2,050 | — | — |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,346 | — | — |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,727 | — | — |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,717 | — | — |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,628 | — | — |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,061 | — | — |
| 1928 | 18 | #2,057 | 6 | #3,970 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,394 | — | — |
| 1926 | 22 | #1,856 | — | — |
| 1925 | 30 | #1,522 | — | — |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,962 | — | — |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,997 | 7 | #3,679 |
| 1922 | 25 | #1,706 | — | — |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,749 | 5 | #4,715 |
| 1920 | 20 | #1,990 | — | — |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,892 | — | — |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,163 | — | — |
| 1917 | 23 | #1,629 | — | — |
| 1916 | 28 | #1,390 | — | — |
| 1915 | 24 | #1,501 | 6 | #3,667 |
| 1914 | 16 | #1,700 | — | — |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,843 | — | — |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,677 | — | — |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,880 | — | — |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,112 | — | — |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,961 | — | — |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,934 | — | — |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,689 | — | — |
| 1896 | 11 | #1,025 | — | — |
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).