girls:
12.6k births since 1880
#1393 (76th percentile)
overall:
12.6k births since 1880
#2347 (70th percentile)
The name Lulu is the #2,347 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 12,611 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 69.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 69.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,393 (75.6% percentile) for all time with 12,611 births since 1880.
Lulu has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Lulu is available in 138 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Lulu reached its peak popularity in 1885, achieving the 67.5% percentile (ranked #82) with 2,536 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 3,166 births per million (ranked 66.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1997, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lulu ranks #889 for girls (6.1% percentile) with 36 births per million, which is 1.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lulu".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Lulu. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.9% confident that Lulu is pronounced as LUE-lue, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LUE-LUE, at 19.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like L UW1 L UW0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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