Lourdes
#2,895 for girls in 2025, 58 births · Last seen for boys in 1990 at #7,178
Given to girls 99.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1963 · 333 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 14,805since 1916
Lourdes over time
Rank among girls' names. Lourdes has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,895 | 58 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,749 | 62 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,442 | 73 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,228 | 84 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,510 | 70 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,341 | 75 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,508 | 70 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,098 | 91 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,087 | 93 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,996 | 99 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,123 | 90 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,010 | 98 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,737 | 119 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,955 | 100 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,817 | 111 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,794 | 114 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,444 | 161 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,445 | 163 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,257 | 196 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,260 | 190 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,154 | 201 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,043 | 222 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,053 | 216 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,020 | 213 | — | |
| 2001 | #874 | 262 | — | |
| 2000 | #962 | 220 | — | |
| 1999 | #889 | 240 | — | |
| 1998 | #888 | 237 | — | |
| 1997 | #930 | 213 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,112 | 163 | — | |
| 1995 | #998 | 188 | — | |
| 1994 | #934 | 200 | — | |
| 1993 | #938 | 201 | — | |
| 1992 | #842 | 236 | — | |
| 1991 | #946 | 201 | — | |
| 1990 | #905 | 212 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #982 | 176 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #990 | 166 | — | |
| 1987 | #993 | 158 | — | |
| 1986 | #947 | 167 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #833 | 195 | — | |
| 1984 | #923 | 161 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #756 | 214 | — | |
| 1982 | #747 | 223 | — | |
| 1981 | #807 | 198 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #805 | 201 | — | |
| 1979 | #864 | 179 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | #782 | 195 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #761 | 199 | — | |
| 1976 | #684 | 216 | #4,935 | 6 |
| 1975 | #699 | 212 | — | |
| 1974 | #687 | 214 | — | |
| 1973 | #692 | 215 | #5,101 | 5 |
| 1972 | #667 | 224 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | #603 | 284 | — | |
| 1970 | #591 | 297 | — | |
| 1969 | #601 | 274 | #3,595 | 7 |
| 1968 | #552 | 309 | — | |
| 1967 | #537 | 305 | — | |
| 1966 | #532 | 314 | — | |
| 1965 | #562 | 286 | — | |
| 1964 | #547 | 327 | #4,039 | 5 |
| 1963 | #532 | 333 | — | |
| 1962 | #539 | 329 | — | |
| 1961 | #585 | 298 | — | |
| 1960 | #581 | 289 | — | |
| 1959 | #645 | 240 | — | |
| 1958 | #639 | 237 | — | |
| 1957 | #798 | 160 | — | |
| 1956 | #799 | 154 | — | |
| 1955 | #811 | 142 | — | |
| 1954 | #812 | 134 | — | |
| 1953 | #867 | 117 | — | |
| 1952 | #884 | 109 | — | |
| 1951 | #952 | 95 | — | |
| 1950 | #971 | 87 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,088 | 68 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,548 | 36 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,337 | 47 | — | |
| 1946 | #1,306 | 44 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,743 | 23 | — | |
| 1944 | #1,519 | 29 | — | |
| 1943 | #1,834 | 22 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,311 | 15 | — | |
| 1941 | #2,272 | 14 | — | |
| 1940 | #1,965 | 17 | — | |
| 1939 | #1,947 | 17 | — | |
| 1938 | #1,596 | 23 | — | |
| 1937 | #1,914 | 17 | — | |
| 1936 | #1,801 | 18 | — | |
| 1935 | #1,845 | 18 | — | |
| 1934 | #1,913 | 17 | — | |
| 1933 | #2,161 | 14 | — | |
| 1932 | #2,037 | 16 | — | |
| 1931 | #2,024 | 16 | — | |
| 1930 | #2,306 | 14 | — | |
| 1929 | #1,766 | 21 | — | |
| 1928 | #1,897 | 20 | — | |
| 1927 | #2,859 | 11 | — | |
| 1926 | #1,932 | 20 | — | |
| 1925 | #2,617 | 13 | — | |
| 1924 | #3,393 | 9 | — | |
| 1923 | #3,350 | 9 | — | |
| 1922 | #2,612 | 13 | — | |
| 1921 | #4,464 | 6 | — | |
| 1920 | #3,598 | 8 | — | |
| 1919 | #3,005 | 10 | — | |
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| 1916 | #4,417 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Lourdes! It came in at #4,417, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1918, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Lourdes is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Florida#290 · 1 in 1,761
- California#341 · 1 in 1,991
- New York#442 · 1 in 2,980
- Arizona#522 · 1 in 3,277
- New Jersey#585 · 1 in 4,534
Best ever in a state: #159 in Hawaii, 1926.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | #290 | 25 | 1 in 1,761 |
| California | #341 | 77 | 1 in 1,991 |
| New York | #442 | 33 | 1 in 2,980 |
| Arizona | #522 | 5 | 1 in 3,277 |
| New Jersey | #585 | 8 | 1 in 4,534 |
| Texas | #702 | 19 | 1 in 5,442 |
| Illinois | #723 | 11 | 1 in 6,446 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Lourdes
- 146 spots since 2024 (#2,749 → #2,895)
- 554 spots since 2020 (#2,341 → #2,895)
- 772 spots since 2015 (#2,123 → #2,895)
- Biggest jump: 182 spots in 1997 (#1,112 → #930)
- Biggest drop: 167 spots in 1984 (#756 → #923)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 1963 at #532 (333 births)
- Births halved by 1984, 21 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 51 yrs · run 1950–1995
- Highest: 1 in 5,309 girls born in 1968 were named Lourdes (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 27,711 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #532 in 1963, was only 1 in 5,788 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 20.7% of all girls named Lourdes (3,064) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 15 | #3,005 (1919) | #3,711 |
| 1920s | 130 | #1,766 (1929) | #2,849 |
| 1930s | 170 | #1,596 (1938) | #1,954 |
| 1940s | 315 | #1,088 (1949) | #1,692 |
| 1950s | 1,475 | #639 (1958) | #818 |
| 1960s | 3,064 | #532 (1963) | #557 |
| 1970s | 2,235 | #591 (1970) | #703 |
| 1980s | 1,859 | #747 (1982) | #878 |
| 1990s | 2,091 | #842 (1992) | #938 |
| 2000s | 2,044 | #874 (2001) | #1,151 |
| 2010s | 985 | #1,737 (2013) | #2,013 |
| 2020s | 422 | #2,228 (2022) | #2,528 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Lourdes in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 7,856 of them was named Lourdes, which outranked 93.2% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 273,640 of them was named Lourdes, which outranked 25.2% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
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Tied with 712 names at #5,059; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.