Meaning not yet researched.
Lula: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 100 in 2025. Its best rank was #36 in 1881.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #36 in 1881; #1,937 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lula in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,937 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #36.
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Lula: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 100 girls in 2025. Peak: #36 in 1881 · most girls in one year: 1,778 (1921).
In 2025, 100 US girls were named Lula, making it the 1,937th most common girls’ name of the year, up 15 places from #1,952 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 102 girls named Lula in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #36, reached in 1881. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,778, in 1921. For comparison, it was #2,007 in 2015 and #340 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lula in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 621 babies with the name. In all, 85,587 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 16,425 babies named Lula.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,131 US girls were named Lula; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 140. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,073 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lula ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #422 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lola (97,167 babies since 1880), Lulu (12,709 babies since 1880) and Luella (32,621 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English, German, Hungarian and Portuguese. 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.
No nicknames listed for Lula in the open dataset we use.
Lula is listed as a nickname for Luella.
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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 7 | #422 | — |
| Alabama | 5 | #898 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,240 | #901 |
| New York | 8 | #1,603 | #2,413 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 100 | #1,937 | — | — |
| 2024 | 102 | #1,952 | — | — |
| 2023 | 110 | #1,831 | — | — |
| 2022 | 100 | #1,971 | — | — |
| 2021 | 140 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 2020 | 117 | #1,724 | — | — |
| 2019 | 117 | #1,759 | — | — |
| 2018 | 109 | #1,860 | — | — |
| 2017 | 118 | #1,775 | — | — |
| 2016 | 118 | #1,768 | — | — |
| 2015 | 99 | #2,007 | — | — |
| 2014 | 87 | #2,190 | — | — |
| 2013 | 99 | #1,985 | — | — |
| 2012 | 93 | #2,071 | — | — |
| 2011 | 69 | #2,608 | — | — |
| 2010 | 67 | #2,684 | — | — |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,030 | — | — |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,299 | — | — |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,637 | — | — |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,903 | — | — |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,084 | — | — |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,397 | — | — |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,782 | — | — |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,281 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,637 | — | — |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,845 | — | — |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,509 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,880 | — | — |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,485 | — | — |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,797 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,218 | — | — |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,374 | — | — |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,469 | — | — |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,514 | — | — |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,832 | — | — |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,258 | — | — |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,603 | — | — |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,211 | — | — |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,476 | — | — |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,458 | — | — |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,678 | — | — |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,636 | — | — |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,757 | — | — |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,308 | — | — |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,302 | — | — |
| 1980 | 30 | #2,969 | — | — |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,120 | — | — |
| 1978 | 32 | #2,656 | — | — |
| 1977 | 34 | #2,536 | — | — |
| 1976 | 42 | #2,085 | — | — |
| 1975 | 53 | #1,765 | — | — |
| 1974 | 63 | #1,544 | — | — |
| 1973 | 61 | #1,534 | — | — |
| 1972 | 60 | #1,552 | — | — |
| 1971 | 59 | #1,606 | — | — |
| 1970 | 70 | #1,458 | — | — |
| 1969 | 65 | #1,460 | — | — |
| 1968 | 68 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 1967 | 97 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 1966 | 97 | #1,069 | — | — |
| 1965 | 110 | #992 | — | — |
| 1964 | 176 | #778 | — | — |
| 1963 | 145 | #871 | — | — |
| 1962 | 168 | #809 | — | — |
| 1961 | 206 | #726 | — | — |
| 1960 | 241 | #655 | — | — |
| 1959 | 237 | #651 | — | — |
| 1958 | 258 | #615 | — | — |
| 1957 | 308 | #547 | — | — |
| 1956 | 329 | #516 | — | — |
| 1955 | 343 | #493 | — | — |
| 1954 | 403 | #437 | — | — |
| 1953 | 405 | #436 | — | — |
| 1952 | 476 | #380 | — | — |
| 1951 | 532 | #346 | — | — |
| 1950 | 528 | #340 | — | — |
| 1949 | 651 | #303 | 5 | #4,021 |
| 1948 | 594 | #319 | — | — |
| 1947 | 689 | #301 | — | — |
| 1946 | 680 | #279 | 5 | #3,820 |
| 1945 | 722 | #252 | 7 | #2,902 |
| 1944 | 719 | #252 | — | — |
| 1943 | 782 | #247 | 6 | #3,425 |
| 1942 | 851 | #226 | — | — |
| 1941 | 824 | #214 | 8 | #2,793 |
| 1940 | 820 | #212 | 6 | #3,330 |
| 1939 | 923 | #193 | 5 | #3,782 |
| 1938 | 973 | #191 | 7 | #3,058 |
| 1937 | 1,087 | #182 | 10 | #2,417 |
| 1936 | 1,099 | #175 | 11 | #2,253 |
| 1935 | 1,086 | #174 | 8 | #2,856 |
| 1934 | 1,124 | #166 | 7 | #3,173 |
| 1933 | 1,087 | #166 | 8 | #2,893 |
| 1932 | 1,230 | #157 | 8 | #3,001 |
| 1931 | 1,154 | #162 | 9 | #2,793 |
| 1930 | 1,314 | #157 | 9 | #2,920 |
| 1929 | 1,333 | #158 | 7 | #3,433 |
| 1928 | 1,376 | #158 | 18 | #1,878 |
| 1927 | 1,586 | #150 | 12 | #2,480 |
| 1926 | 1,564 | #154 | 15 | #2,152 |
| 1925 | 1,707 | #149 | 12 | #2,533 |
| 1924 | 1,776 | #146 | 16 | #2,097 |
| 1923 | 1,673 | #151 | 5 | #4,635 |
| 1922 | 1,759 | #142 | 5 | #4,701 |
| 1921 | 1,778 | #143 | 9 | #3,129 |
| 1920 | 1,765 | #139 | 9 | #3,106 |
| 1919 | 1,776 | #134 | — | — |
| 1918 | 1,771 | #132 | 8 | #3,271 |
| 1917 | 1,607 | #135 | 9 | #2,867 |
| 1916 | 1,676 | #127 | — | — |
| 1915 | 1,537 | #129 | 9 | #2,742 |
| 1914 | 1,345 | #120 | — | — |
| 1913 | 1,179 | #111 | 10 | #1,891 |
| 1912 | 1,094 | #107 | 5 | #2,764 |
| 1911 | 970 | #94 | 5 | #1,904 |
| 1910 | 975 | #93 | 7 | #1,375 |
| 1909 | 922 | #91 | — | — |
| 1908 | 892 | #89 | — | — |
| 1907 | 905 | #84 | — | — |
| 1906 | 911 | #79 | 6 | #1,197 |
| 1905 | 963 | #78 | — | — |
| 1904 | 894 | #77 | — | — |
| 1903 | 913 | #73 | 8 | #885 |
| 1902 | 976 | #71 | 7 | #988 |
| 1901 | 905 | #67 | 5 | #1,153 |
| 1900 | 1,237 | #63 | — | — |
| 1899 | 894 | #67 | — | — |
| 1898 | 1,069 | #64 | 11 | #690 |
| 1897 | 971 | #63 | — | — |
| 1896 | 1,012 | #64 | — | — |
| 1895 | 987 | #64 | — | — |
| 1894 | 1,042 | #60 | 7 | #918 |
| 1893 | 1,034 | #57 | 5 | #1,133 |
| 1892 | 1,098 | #53 | — | — |
| 1891 | 1,010 | #50 | — | — |
| 1890 | 1,121 | #48 | 5 | #1,094 |
| 1889 | 1,067 | #47 | 5 | #1,054 |
| 1888 | 1,173 | #44 | — | — |
| 1887 | 891 | #47 | — | — |
| 1886 | 1,040 | #40 | — | — |
| 1885 | 949 | #41 | — | — |
| 1884 | 916 | #39 | — | — |
| 1883 | 790 | #43 | — | — |
| 1882 | 780 | #40 | — | — |
| 1881 | 655 | #36 | — | — |
| 1880 | 621 | #39 | — | — |
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).