Lotus

girls’ nameAt its peak · modern nameCompare

Lotus is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 123 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 1230.01% of girls
Peak year: 2023140 births
Best rank: —never in the top 1,000
Since 1896: 2,842people given the name

Babies named Lotus, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

2,653 girls have been named Lotus in the United States since 1896, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2023, with 140 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2023, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2012, and the 2010s alone account for 31%.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 189 boys have also been given it, 6.7% of the total.

By decade

Decade	girls named Lotus
1890s	16
1900s	26
1910s	160
1920s	213
1930s	161
1940s	89
1950s	77
1960s	23
1970s	46
1980s	34
1990s	56
2000s	314
2010s	834
2020s	604

In 2023, its biggest year

Lotus was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2023 were Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia and Sophia. See all of 2023.

Names that rose and fell with Lotus

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.