Loula
Loula was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,147 among girls’ names; 654 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Loula by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Loula?
#8,147 among girls’ names, 2025
Loula rose from #11,479 in 2015 to #8,147 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 8.1 per million.
17 babies in 1884, the peak
Loula peaked in 1884, when 17 girls were given it, #514 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 76% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,147 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,036 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,819 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,237 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,911 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,419 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,479 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,545 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,449 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,182 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 5 | #5,686 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,687 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,761 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,320 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,970 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,805 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,758 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,079 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,320 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,961 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,024 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,849 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,015 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,195 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,374 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,950 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,364 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,702 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,394 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,420 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,707 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,861 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,728 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,864 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,868 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 11 | #3,014 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,329 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,930 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,796 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,320 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,624 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,357 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,040 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,264 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,040 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,688 | 0.02 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,999 | 0.02 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,245 | 0.02 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,855 | 0.02 |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,486 | 0.03 |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,393 | 0.03 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,584 | 0.03 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,095 | 0.02 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,515 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,454 | 0.03 |
| 1897 | 10 | #1,075 | 0.04 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,504 | 0.03 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,171 | 0.04 |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,034 | 0.04 |
| 1893 | 11 | #938 | 0.05 |
| 1892 | 13 | #851 | 0.06 |
| 1891 | 12 | #824 | 0.06 |
| 1890 | 10 | #910 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,214 | 0.03 |
| 1888 | 15 | #678 | 0.08 |
| 1887 | 12 | #679 | 0.08 |
| 1886 | 17 | #549 | 0.12 |
| 1885 | 12 | #646 | 0.09 |
| 1884 | 17 | #514 | 0.13 |
| 1883 | 14 | #533 | 0.12 |
| 1882 | 12 | #551 | 0.11 |
| 1881 | 14 | #460 | 0.15 |
| 1880 | 13 | #483 | 0.14 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Loula a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Loula has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 73 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Loula: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Loula, and how old are they?
An estimated 117 Americans named Loula and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (18% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 4 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 264 people named Loula (264 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 114 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 152,086 babies since 1880, Loula is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 1,463 babies (<1%), again the fifth most given.
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 Loula
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 Loula and names like it
- Compare Loula and LolaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1880sLoula peaked in 1884.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Loula since 1910.
- The top names of 1884The year the most babies were named Loula.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Loula alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.