girls:
85k births since 1880
#411 (93rd percentile)
boys:
339 births since 1889
#4247 (7th percentile)
overall:
85.4k births since 1880
#755 (90th percentile)
The name Lula is the #755 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 85,384 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 90.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #411 (92.8% percentile) for all time with 85,045 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,247 (7.3% percentile) for all time with 339 births since 1889.
Lula has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1889 for boys).
The name Lula has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Lula reached its peak popularity in 1886, achieving the 85.4% percentile (ranked #39) with 6,765 births per million. The name was most common in 1886, with 6,765 births per million (ranked 85.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Lula ranks #842 for girls (11.1% percentile) with 63 births per million, which is 0.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lula reached its peak popularity in 1898, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #224) with 83 births per million. The name was most common in 1898, with 83 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1949.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lula".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Lula. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Lula is pronounced as LUE-luh, which has 2 syllables.
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Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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