girls:
18.6k births since 1885
#1081 (81st percentile)
boys:
6k births since 1899
#1521 (67th percentile)
overall:
24.6k births since 1885
#1620 (79th percentile)
The name Lupe is the #1,620 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 24,617 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 79.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,081 (81.1% percentile) for all time with 18,606 births since 1885. For boys, it ranks #1,521 (66.8% percentile) for all time with 6,011 births since 1899.
Lupe first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (1885 for girls and 1899 for boys). Birth data for Lupe is available in 132 out of the 138 years between 1885 and 2022 (132 years for girls and 111 years for boys). 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.
The name Lupe has been given predominantly to girls, with 75.6% of all recorded births being female. In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Lupe were girls.
For girls, Lupe reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 50.8% percentile (ranked #297) with 358 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 367 births per million (ranked 49.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Lupe reached its peak popularity in 1945, achieving the 25.6% percentile (ranked #399) with 106 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 120 births per million (ranked 23.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lupe".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Lupe. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.4% confident that Lupe is pronounced as LUE-pay, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is luep, at 33.3% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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