Gudalupe — unisex name
27 babies named Gudalupe in U.S. Social Security records since 1949, with the highest year being 1949. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
78% of everyone ever named Gudalupe was born in this single decade.
6 babies were named Gudalupe in 1949 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Gudalupe
The Social Security Administration has registered 27 babies named Gudalupe between 1949 and 1999, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Gudalupe currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1999. The name reached its historical peak in 1949, when 6 babies received it in a single year. Gudalupe is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 1961.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Gudalupe performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 21 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Gudalupe shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Gudalupe in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Gudalupe in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 27 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Gudalupe at a glance
Last recorded 1999Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Gudalupe popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1999–1949
- Peak year (1949)
- 6
- Annual births at peak — across 51 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1999.
27 total births across 51 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1949 with 6 births in a single year.
Gudalupe popularity over time — boys
5 total births recorded since 1961 (Gudalupe as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Gudalupe accounts for 16% of total recorded use across both genders.
Gudalupe by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 21 births that decade — 78% of Gudalupe's all-time total
Gudalupe decade highlights
- Peak decade 21 births
- Runner-up 6 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Gudalupe's strongest decade
21 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 78% of all-time use.
Gudalupe by state
Where Gudalupe concentrates geographically — total births since 1949
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 18.5% |
5 of 27 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 18.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 18.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1949–1999 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.