Loula

Where Loula comes from

Loula hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1863
    Loula Roberts Platt born
    American suffragist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #466 among girls — 13 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1881
    Peak, #447
    14 babies named Loula — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1889
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,147.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Loula Roberts Platt · American suffragist, 1863–1934

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.