Lula
Lula is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 101 births. Its best rank was 36th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1010.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19211,778 births
- Best rank
- #36in 1881
- Since 1880
- 85,146people given the name
The story in the numbers
85,146 girls have been named Lula in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 1,778 births — 0.14% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 101 births in 2024, against 1,778 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1920, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 86 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 32 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lula | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 8,882 | |
| 1890s | 10,238 | |
| 1900s | 9,518 | |
| 1910s | 13,930 | |
| 1920s | 16,317 | |
| 1930s | 11,077 | |
| 1940s | 7,331 | |
| 1950s | 3,819 | |
| 1960s | 1,373 | |
| 1970s | 501 | |
| 1980s | 210 | |
| 1990s | 116 | |
| 2000s | 290 | |
| 2010s | 976 | |
| 2020s | 568 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Lula was the 143rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Lula
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nettiepeak 1918
- Idapeak 1918
- Ettapeak 1920
- Hattiepeak 1918
- Nanniepeak 1920
- Salliepeak 1916
- Addiepeak 1920
- Mittiepeak 1920
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.