Lurlene
Lurlene was last recorded in 1968, when 7 babies were given it; 881 Americans have been recorded with it between 1905 and 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lurlene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lurlene?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,979, in 1968; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
37 babies in 1921, the peak
Lurlene peaked in 1921, when 37 girls were given it, #1,286 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 7 | #5,979 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,477 | 3.6 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,373 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,653 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,272 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,343 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,638 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,090 | 4.9 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,342 | 4.5 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,010 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 10 | #3,864 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,849 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,997 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,187 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,984 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,261 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,845 | 7.9 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,690 | 8.9 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,290 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,248 | 12.1 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,646 | 9.3 |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,084 | 13.3 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,482 | 10.8 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,719 | 19.2 |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,267 | 12.8 |
| 1938 | 16 | #2,072 | 14.5 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,967 | 16.0 |
| 1936 | 26 | #1,465 | 25.0 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,258 | 13.4 |
| 1934 | 16 | #2,051 | 15.3 |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,942 | 16.9 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,728 | 19.7 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,992 | 16.0 |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,994 | 16.0 |
| 1929 | 24 | #1,623 | 21.5 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,712 | 20.8 |
| 1927 | 30 | #1,503 | 25.2 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,693 | 21.1 |
| 1925 | 25 | #1,723 | 20.5 |
| 1924 | 18 | #2,183 | 14.4 |
| 1923 | 29 | #1,541 | 24.0 |
| 1922 | 33 | #1,416 | 27.5 |
| 1921 | 37 | #1,286 | 30.0 |
| 1920 | 29 | #1,535 | 24.2 |
| 1919 | 24 | #1,680 | 21.2 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,250 | 13.8 |
| 1917 | 23 | #1,630 | 21.3 |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,563 | 23.0 |
| 1915 | 16 | #2,012 | 16.3 |
| 1914 | 21 | #1,416 | 27.6 |
| 1913 | 21 | #1,255 | 33.6 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,583 | 23.3 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,735 | 21.5 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,124 | 17.3 |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,503 | 27.1 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,831 | 20.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lurlene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lurlene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lurlene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lurlene, and how old are they?
An estimated 205 Americans named Lurlene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (23% of everyone recorded); the median is 79 years old and half are between 70 and 86. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 333 people named Lurlene (332 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 289 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,766 babies since 1880, Lurlene is the second most given (32% of them).
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 Lurlene
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 Lurlene and names like it
- Compare Lurlene and LurlineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLurlene peaked in 1921.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lurlene since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Lurlene.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lurlene alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.