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Lupe

#13,208 in the US in 2025

Where Lupe stands

United States register · 1880–2025

#13,208girls’ names · US 2025

Lupe was the 13,208th most registered girls' name in the United States in 2025, on 6 births.

peak 1927 · 443BELOW THE 5-BIRTH FLOOR — NOT PUBLISHED188019532025

Its moment was 1927, when 443 babies were given it. In 7 of the years between, the name fell under the 5-birth floor and the registrar published nothing — those years are the marks along the base of the chart, not gaps in the name's use.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

#13,208US rank, 2025 (girls)
6US births in 2025
#317its best US rank, in 1927
1927peak year — 443 births
18,621US births since 1885
10NZ births since 2009
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How Lupe's figures are worked out

  1. Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site. The SSA files are the agency's own, retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified.
  2. Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
  3. The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
  4. The reporting floor. Each registrar publishes a name only once it clears a threshold — 5 births of that sex in the US, 10 in New Zealand. Expressed as a share that threshold is itself a curve, and it is drawn on every chart here as the shaded band along the base.
  5. A missing year is a suppressed value, never a zero. Where the registrar published nothing, this site prints “below floor” or “<5”, the curve is broken rather than drawn across the gap, and the missing years are marked on the floor line. Lupe was under the floor in 7 years of its US record.
share per 100,000 = births ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000
reporting floor (share) = 5 ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000

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Lupe in the United States

18801900192019401960198020002020NOT PUBLISHED — BELOW THE 5-BIRTH FLOOR0.01938
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 5-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Lupe in the United States, 1880–2025
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Between 2015 and 2025 the name has been steady.

Lupe is given to both sexes: 18,631 female and 6,025 male births on record. The two curves rarely move together, which is why they are drawn separately rather than summed.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Lupe in New Zealand

In New Zealand, Lupe has been registered 10 times since 2009, peaking in 2009 with 10 births. It did not clear the DIA's 10-birth reporting floor in 2025.

1900192019401960198020002020NOT PUBLISHED — BELOW THE 10-BIRTH FLOOR0.02957
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 10-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Lupe in New Zealand, 1900–2025

SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Lupe in England & Wales

Lupe does not appear in the ONS list for England and Wales. That means it was given to fewer than 3 babies in every year from 2019 to 2025 — not that it is unused there. ONS publishes only those seven years, so a name that had its moment in England before 2019 is invisible here however common it once was.

SOURCE·Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales·Open Government Licence v3.0. ONS redacts any name given to 2 or fewer babies of that sex that year, under s40 of the Freedom of Information Act.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Decade by decade in the US

US rank and births at each decade markSSA · JUL 2026
YearRankBirths
1890#1,2106
1900#88518
1910#61047
1920#390284
1930#326405
1940#353333
1950#511253
1960#618264
1970#1,042118
1980#1,40888
1990#2,52347
2000#6,80815
2010#12,2768
2020#15,0885

<5 = the SSA published no figure for that year. It is a suppressed value, not a zero.

Where in the United States

The states that registered Lupe most often since 1885. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.

Questions about Lupe

How popular is the name Lupe?

Lupe ranked #13,208 for girls in the United States in 2025, on 6 births registered with the Social Security Administration.

When was Lupe most popular?

Lupe peaked in 1927, when 443 babies in the United States were given the name.

Is Lupe rising or falling?

Measured as a share of all girls' births, Lupe has been steady between 2015 and 2025.

Same sex, peaking within a few years of 1927, at a comparable scale. Not a taste engine — this is arithmetic on peak years, which is why it will occasionally hand you something unfashionable that is nonetheless exactly of the period.

SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026

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