Lulu

Where Lulu comes from

A reduplication of Lu, a clipping of given names with the first syllable of Lu, Lou, such as Lucy, Lucille, Louise, Louisa.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lulu
  • Chinese
  • Arabic
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #86 among girls — 249 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #76
    313 babies named Lulu — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1901
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #247.
  4. 1983
    Lulu Wang born
    Asian-American filmmaker
  5. 2005
    Lulu Wilson born
    American actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
  • A diminutive of the female given names Louisa, Louise, Lucy, and Lucille.
  • A female given name from Chinese.
  • A unisex given name from Arabic.
  • A female given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Pearl.
Namesakes
  • Lulu Wilson · American actress, born 2005
  • Lulu Wang · Asian-American filmmaker, born 1983
  • Lulu Sun · New Zealand and Swiss tennis player, born 2001
  • Lulu Wang · Dutch writer, born 1960
  • Lulu Ranne · Finnish politician, born 1971

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.