Lois
Lois is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 120 births. Its best rank was 17th, in 1929–1930.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1200.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 192710,505 births
- Best rank
- #17first in 1929
- Since 1880
- 335,474people given the name
The story in the numbers
332,830 girls have been named Lois in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1927, with 10,505 births — 0.88% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 120 births in 2024, against 10,505 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1932, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 104 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 52 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,644 boys have also been given it, 0.79% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lois | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 954 | |
| 1890s | 3,228 | |
| 1900s | 7,691 | |
| 1910s | 38,179 | |
| 1920s | 88,133 | |
| 1930s | 80,713 | |
| 1940s | 56,854 | |
| 1950s | 36,201 | |
| 1960s | 13,254 | |
| 1970s | 2,886 | |
| 1980s | 1,399 | |
| 1990s | 930 | |
| 2000s | 783 | |
| 2010s | 1,023 | |
| 2020s | 602 |
In 1927, its biggest year
Lois was the 19th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1927 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1927.
Names that rose and fell with Lois
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dorthypeak 1927
- Earlinepeak 1927
- Ardispeak 1928
- Pearlinepeak 1927
- Wilmapeak 1925
- Dorispeak 1928
- Melbapeak 1924
- Jeanpeak 1927
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.