Lala
Lala was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,633 among girls’ names; 1,778 Americans have been recorded with it since 1884 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lala by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lala mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Lala is “a male given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lala?
#8,633 among girls’ names, 2025
Lala rose from #11,442 in 2015 to #8,633 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 7.5 per million.
39 babies in 1921, the peak
Lala peaked in 1921, when 39 girls were given it, #1,247 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,633 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,794 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,330 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,845 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,281 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,459 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,453 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,045 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,565 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,373 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (123)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,442 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,564 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,383 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,909 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,841 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,864 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,898 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,469 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,769 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,288 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,730 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,505 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,401 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,611 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,568 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,530 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,182 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,437 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,656 | 3.4 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,887 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,060 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,766 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,724 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,584 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,622 | 4.2 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,091 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,046 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,805 | 6.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,205 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,042 | 4.8 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,634 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,209 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,540 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,034 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,398 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,609 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,096 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,709 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,971 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,711 | 4.0 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,657 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,230 | 4.6 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,128 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 22 | #2,266 | 11.7 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,677 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,750 | 8.3 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,719 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,465 | 9.9 |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,450 | 10.0 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,694 | 8.5 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,830 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,836 | 8.4 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,462 | 10.5 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,496 | 10.0 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,479 | 10.4 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,846 | 16.6 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,929 | 15.7 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,841 | 17.3 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,283 | 12.7 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,640 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,834 | 17.3 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,651 | 10.5 |
| 1934 | 25 | #1,496 | 23.9 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,689 | 20.8 |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,466 | 25.3 |
| 1931 | 27 | #1,437 | 25.4 |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,781 | 18.7 |
| 1929 | 33 | #1,321 | 29.6 |
| 1928 | 27 | #1,563 | 23.4 |
| 1927 | 28 | #1,568 | 23.5 |
| 1926 | 34 | #1,374 | 28.7 |
| 1925 | 37 | #1,309 | 30.4 |
| 1924 | 39 | #1,290 | 31.2 |
| 1923 | 36 | #1,316 | 29.8 |
| 1922 | 34 | #1,392 | 28.3 |
| 1921 | 39 | #1,247 | 31.6 |
| 1920 | 28 | #1,569 | 23.4 |
| 1919 | 33 | #1,358 | 29.2 |
| 1918 | 33 | #1,347 | 28.5 |
| 1917 | 33 | #1,271 | 30.5 |
| 1916 | 38 | #1,155 | 36.4 |
| 1915 | 37 | #1,130 | 37.6 |
| 1914 | 26 | #1,213 | 34.1 |
| 1913 | 21 | #1,252 | 33.6 |
| 1912 | 28 | #967 | 50.2 |
| 1911 | 17 | #1,090 | 40.6 |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,382 | 30.3 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,536 | 25.9 |
| 1908 | 15 | #1,063 | 44.9 |
| 1907 | 13 | #1,113 | 40.8 |
| 1906 | 13 | #1,073 | 44.0 |
| 1905 | 12 | #1,128 | 41.1 |
| 1904 | 12 | #1,077 | 43.6 |
| 1903 | 11 | #1,104 | 42.0 |
| 1902 | 18 | #834 | 68.2 |
| 1901 | 10 | #1,102 | 41.8 |
| 1900 | 25 | #738 | 83.4 |
| 1899 | 9 | #1,144 | 38.6 |
| 1898 | 10 | #1,145 | 38.6 |
| 1897 | 16 | #812 | 68.3 |
| 1896 | 17 | #802 | 71.5 |
| 1895 | 17 | #782 | 72.8 |
| 1894 | 16 | #767 | 71.8 |
| 1893 | 9 | #1,050 | 42.3 |
| 1892 | 11 | #938 | 51.8 |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,152 | 37.7 |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,152 | 36.8 |
| 1889 | 9 | #928 | 50.5 |
| 1888 | 8 | #995 | 44.8 |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,091 | 41.1 |
| 1886 | 9 | #804 | 62.3 |
| 1885 | 6 | #988 | 45.1 |
| 1884 | 6 | #976 | 46.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lala a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lala has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 123 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lala: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lala, and how old are they?
An estimated 613 Americans named Lala and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (35% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 15 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,055 people named Lala (1,987 women and girls, 68 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 652 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Lala born?
The states with the most babies named Lala are Texas, New Mexico and North Carolina, with 96% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Mexico is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 103 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New Mexico | 62 | not ranked | 7.5× |
| North Carolina | 56 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Kentucky | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Lala is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lala is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lala with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 194,270 babies since 1880, Lala is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 6,574 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lala
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lala and names like it
- Compare Lala and LaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLala peaked in 1921.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lala since 1910.
- Turkish namesWiktionary’s origin for Lala: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Lala.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lala alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.