# Lula (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lula/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 85,587 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 339 / 85,248 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 707, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

19th-century variant of Lulu, nickname of Louisa and Lucy. In rare cases, shortened from Tallulah.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 69 | 2,608 |
| 2012 | 93 | 2,071 |
| 2013 | 99 | 1,985 |
| 2014 | 87 | 2,190 |
| 2015 | 99 | 2,007 |
| 2016 | 118 | 1,768 |
| 2017 | 118 | 1,775 |
| 2018 | 109 | 1,860 |
| 2019 | 117 | 1,759 |
| 2020 | 117 | 1,724 |
| 2021 | 140 | 1,513 |
| 2022 | 100 | 1,971 |
| 2023 | 110 | 1,831 |
| 2024 | 102 | 1,952 |
| 2025 | 100 | 1,937 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1931 | 9 | 2,793 |
| 1932 | 8 | 3,001 |
| 1933 | 8 | 2,893 |
| 1934 | 7 | 3,173 |
| 1935 | 8 | 2,856 |
| 1936 | 11 | 2,253 |
| 1937 | 10 | 2,417 |
| 1938 | 7 | 3,058 |
| 1939 | 5 | 3,782 |
| 1940 | 6 | 3,330 |
| 1941 | 8 | 2,793 |
| 1943 | 6 | 3,425 |
| 1945 | 7 | 2,902 |
| 1946 | 5 | 3,820 |
| 1949 | 5 | 4,021 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 32 | 1,067 |
| 2012 | 21 | 1,483 |
| 2013 | 24 | 1,360 |
| 2014 | 26 | 1,272 |
| 2015 | 37 | 965 |
| 2016 | 41 | 897 |
| 2017 | 63 | 661 |
| 2018 | 42 | 886 |
| 2019 | 62 | 632 |
| 2020 | 31 | 1,065 |
| 2021 | 43 | 828 |
| 2022 | 40 | 876 |
| 2023 | 29 | 1,135 |
| 2024 | 27 | 1,230 |
| 2025 | 25 | 1,271 |

## People named Lula

- Lula Ali Ismail, Djibouti-Canadian filmmaker (* 1978)
- Lula Pena, Fado and World music singer, composer and poet from Lisbon, Portugal

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.