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How popular is “Lulu” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lulu” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Lulu” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Lulu” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Lulu” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Lulu” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Lulu” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lulu” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 249 0.00123583 249 100%
1881 313 0.001624388 313 100%
1882 279 0.001259406 279 100%
1883 302 0.001392051 302 100%
1884 344 0.001412957 344 100%
1885 360 0.001494681 360 100%
1886 376 0.001472685 376 100%
1887 322 0.001301578 322 100%
1888 367 0.001225482 367 100%
1889 341 0.001180151 341 100%
1890 364 0.001207693 364 100%
1891 315 0.001098813 315 100%
1892 325 0.000971966 325 100%
1893 304 0.000934743 304 100%
1894 278 0.00082081 278 100%
1895 258 0.000735001 258 100%
1896 228 0.000637791 228 100%
1897 199 0.000573558 199 100%
1898 209 0.000547902 209 100%
1899 179 0.000527659 179 100%
1900 196 0.000435306 196 100%
1901 135 0.000390386 135 100%
1902 161 0.000416308 161 100%
1903 122 0.000320042 122 100%
1904 151 0.000374239 151 100%
1905 126 0.000297224 126 100%
1906 115 0.000268409 115 100%
1907 127 0.000272889 127 100%
1908 120 0.000245575 120 100%
1909 123 0.000240599 123 100%
1910 112 0.000189602 112 100%
1911 82 0.000127274 82 100%
1912 125 0.00012651 125 100%
1913 110 0.000096736 110 100%
1914 158 0.000111555 158 100%
1915 167 0.000091136 167 100%
1916 198 0.000102356 198 100%
1917 166 0.000082721 166 100%
1918 183 0.000084289 183 100%
1919 183 0.00008672 183 100%
1920 177 0.000078227 177 100%
1921 160 0.000068537 160 100%
1922 133 0.0000581 133 100%
1923 137 0.000059501 137 100%
1924 113 0.000047447 113 100%
1925 114 0.000048858 114 100%
1926 116 0.000050525 116 100%
1927 114 0.000049152 114 100%
1928 79 0.000034941 79 100%
1929 78 0.000035581 78 100%
1930 71 0.000031935 71 100%
1931 57 0.000027086 57 100%
1932 65 0.000030787 65 100%
1933 42 0.000021006 42 100%
1934 66 0.000031779 66 100%
1935 86 0.00004115 86 100%
1936 92 0.000044282 92 100%
1937 50 0.000023467 50 100%
1938 64 0.000028926 64 100%
1939 54 0.000024507 54 100%
1940 41 0.000017805 41 100%
1941 42 0.000017238 42 100%
1942 26 0.000009517 26 100%
1943 27 0.000009566 27 100%
1944 28 0.000010409 28 100%
1945 16 0.000006031 16 100%
1946 21 0.000006572 21 100%
1947 22 0.000006107 22 100%
1948 24 0.000006951 24 100%
1949 29 0.000008322 29 100%
1950 22 0.00000628 22 100%
1951 15 0.000004072 15 100%
1952 22 0.000005793 22 100%
1953 17 0.000004411 17 100%
1954 24 0.000006029 24 100%
1955 19 0.000004732 19 100%
1956 21 0.000005093 21 100%
1957 21 0.000004997 21 100%
1958 23 0.000005564 23 100%
1959 29 0.000006975 29 100%
1960 17 0.000004093 17 100%
1961 18 0.000004345 18 100%
1962 18 0.000004461 18 100%
1963 11 0.000002779 11 100%
1964 14 0.000003601 14 100%
1965 16 0.000004413 16 100%
1966 12 0.000003453 12 100%
1967 14 0.000004124 14 100%
1968 15 0.00000444 15 100%
1969 10 0.000002877 10 100%
1970 12 0.000003327 12 100%
1971 15 0.00000437 15 100%
1972 16 0.000005091 16 100%
1973 14 0.000004641 14 100%
1974 14 0.000004605 14 100%
1975 7 0.000002318 7 100%
1976 8 0.000002637 8 100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 100%
1979 13 0.000003907 13 100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 100%
1982 6 0.00000171 6 100%
1983 8 0.00000231 8 100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 100%
1988 5 0.000001353 5 100%
1990 6 0.000001518 6 100%
1991 11 0.000002824 11 100%
1993 6 0.000001591 6 100%
1994 7 0.000001883 7 100%
1995 9 0.000002458 9 100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 100%
1997 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1998 14 0.000003806 14 100%
1999 15 0.000004061 15 100%
2000 14 0.000003704 14 100%
2001 16 0.000004274 16 100%
2002 17 0.000004548 17 100%
2003 26 0.000006838 26 100%
2004 22 0.000005758 22 100%
2005 26 0.000006762 26 100%
2006 31 0.000007836 31 100%
2007 50 0.000012507 50 100%
2008 59 0.00001501 59 100%
2009 41 0.000010732 41 100%
2010 51 0.0000138 51 100%
2011 54 0.000014763 54 100%
2012 54 0.000014765 54 100%
2013 58 0.000015909 58 100%
2014 52 0.00001403 52 100%
2015 60 0.000016212 60 100%
2016 50 0.000013629 50 100%
2017 66 0.000018455 66 100%
2018 63 0.000017919 63 100%
2019 57 0.000016422 57 100%
2020 59 0.000017662 59 100%
2021 62 0.0000183 62 100%
2022 63 0.000018622 63 100%
2023 63 0.000019026 63 100%
2024 45 0.00001352 45 100%

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