In 2025, 7 US boys were named Lupe, making it the 10,285th most common boys’ name of the year, up 232 places from #10,517 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 7 boys named Lupe in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #496, reached in 1945. The most boys given the name in a single year was 153, in 1946. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #684 in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Lupe, making it the 14,243rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,481 places from #10,762 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 9 girls named Lupe in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #317, reached in 1927. That year also had the most girls given the name: 443. For comparison, it was #12,518 in 2015 and #512 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lupe in 134 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 5 babies. In all, 24,646 US babies have been given the name, 76% of them girls and 24% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 4,864 babies named Lupe.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 35 US boys were named Lupe; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 8. In 2025 that was about 1 in 244,011 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Guadalupe (91,997 babies since 1880).