Lupita
Lupita was given to 49 girls in 2025, #3,232 among girls’ names; 5,770 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,240 Americans named Lupita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 17 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lupita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lupita mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Lupita is “a diminutive of the female given name Guadalupe”
From Lupe + -ita.
/luˈpita/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lupita?
#3,232 among girls’ names, 2025
Lupita fell from #2,206 in 2015 to #3,232 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 48.2 to 30.5 per million.
159 babies in 2007, the peak
Lupita peaked in 2007, when 159 girls were given it, #1,473 among girls’ names. The 49 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #3,232 | 30.5 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,869 | 24.1 |
| 2023 | 44 | #3,555 | 27.4 |
| 2022 | 52 | #3,145 | 31.7 |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,239 | 30.5 |
| 2020 | 74 | #2,391 | 45.8 |
| 2019 | 63 | #2,720 | 37.5 |
| 2018 | 70 | #2,523 | 41.2 |
| 2017 | 82 | #2,277 | 47.5 |
| 2016 | 83 | #2,297 | 46.8 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 86 | #2,206 | 48.2 |
| 2014 | 109 | #1,862 | 61.0 |
| 2013 | 111 | #1,832 | 63.3 |
| 2012 | 116 | #1,776 | 65.9 |
| 2011 | 103 | #1,934 | 58.6 |
| 2010 | 116 | #1,779 | 65.3 |
| 2009 | 144 | #1,567 | 78.4 |
| 2008 | 137 | #1,649 | 72.5 |
| 2007 | 159 | #1,473 | 82.7 |
| 2006 | 152 | #1,466 | 79.9 |
| 2005 | 149 | #1,435 | 80.6 |
| 2004 | 93 | #1,991 | 50.6 |
| 2003 | 98 | #1,879 | 53.6 |
| 2002 | 106 | #1,725 | 59.0 |
| 2001 | 107 | #1,689 | 59.4 |
| 2000 | 92 | #1,856 | 50.7 |
| 1999 | 108 | #1,565 | 60.9 |
| 1998 | 94 | #1,698 | 53.2 |
| 1997 | 97 | #1,631 | 55.7 |
| 1996 | 92 | #1,662 | 52.5 |
| 1995 | 96 | #1,580 | 54.6 |
| 1994 | 110 | #1,446 | 61.6 |
| 1993 | 116 | #1,400 | 64.1 |
| 1992 | 106 | #1,492 | 57.5 |
| 1991 | 85 | #1,714 | 45.3 |
| 1990 | 89 | #1,657 | 46.9 |
| 1989 | 74 | #1,810 | 40.1 |
| 1988 | 63 | #1,941 | 35.4 |
| 1987 | 58 | #1,954 | 33.4 |
| 1986 | 59 | #1,898 | 34.4 |
| 1985 | 48 | #2,195 | 27.9 |
| 1984 | 50 | #2,037 | 29.7 |
| 1983 | 51 | #2,005 | 30.5 |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,863 | 34.3 |
| 1981 | 61 | #1,820 | 36.6 |
| 1980 | 59 | #1,858 | 35.5 |
| 1979 | 48 | #2,102 | 29.9 |
| 1978 | 41 | #2,258 | 26.8 |
| 1977 | 49 | #1,991 | 32.0 |
| 1976 | 50 | #1,856 | 34.1 |
| 1975 | 44 | #2,009 | 30.2 |
| 1974 | 44 | #1,946 | 30.0 |
| 1973 | 43 | #1,928 | 29.5 |
| 1972 | 38 | #2,078 | 25.0 |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,315 | 20.4 |
| 1970 | 44 | #1,942 | 25.2 |
| 1969 | 38 | #2,041 | 22.5 |
| 1968 | 39 | #1,929 | 23.8 |
| 1967 | 47 | #1,674 | 28.5 |
| 1966 | 36 | #1,939 | 21.3 |
| 1965 | 41 | #1,787 | 23.2 |
| 1964 | 45 | #1,740 | 23.7 |
| 1963 | 34 | #2,042 | 17.6 |
| 1962 | 40 | #1,815 | 20.3 |
| 1961 | 35 | #1,980 | 17.3 |
| 1960 | 35 | #1,941 | 17.3 |
| 1959 | 37 | #1,840 | 18.3 |
| 1958 | 44 | #1,617 | 21.9 |
| 1957 | 38 | #1,764 | 18.6 |
| 1956 | 33 | #1,883 | 16.4 |
| 1955 | 49 | #1,454 | 25.1 |
| 1954 | 37 | #1,692 | 19.1 |
| 1953 | 38 | #1,601 | 20.2 |
| 1952 | 42 | #1,496 | 22.6 |
| 1951 | 33 | #1,682 | 18.3 |
| 1950 | 28 | #1,818 | 16.3 |
| 1949 | 38 | #1,496 | 22.2 |
| 1948 | 39 | #1,480 | 23.0 |
| 1947 | 43 | #1,428 | 24.3 |
| 1946 | 26 | #1,793 | 16.5 |
| 1945 | 33 | #1,406 | 25.2 |
| 1944 | 25 | #1,684 | 18.8 |
| 1943 | 23 | #1,813 | 16.5 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,164 | 12.6 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,481 | 10.8 |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,069 | 14.0 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,371 | 11.9 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,083 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 20 | #1,759 | 18.8 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,461 | 11.5 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,064 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,067 | 8.6 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,486 | 11.9 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,756 | 10.3 |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,166 | 14.1 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,377 | 12.4 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,517 | 11.6 |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,069 | 8.7 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,285 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,313 | 13.5 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,265 | 8.2 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,900 | 9.6 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,830 | 6.6 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,786 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,834 | 4.9 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,424 | 12.5 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,961 | 6.6 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,242 | 9.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lupita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lupita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 108 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lupita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lupita, and how old are they?
5,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 5,770 Americans ever recorded as Lupita. The median Lupita alive today is 28 years old; half are between 17 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 6,182 people named Lupita (6,168 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,079 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 94 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 555 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 646 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,180 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,850 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 906 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Lupita born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 13 | #1,762 | 2.8× |
| California | 9 | #2,208 | 2.8× |
Where Lupita is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lupita is most over-represented in Arizona: since 1912 it was given 3.5 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 Lupita with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lupita
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 Lupita and names like it
- Compare Lupita and StarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLupita peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lupita since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Lupita: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Lupita.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lupita alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.