How Many People Are Named Lourdes?

13,579

people named Lourdes are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 25,170 people in the US has this name

Based on 14,874 babies named Lourdes in Social Security records from 1916 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,026

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,107

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Peak Year

1963

333 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Spanish
Pronunciation: LOR-dhes (Spanish), LOORD (French), LIRDZ (English)
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

From the name of a French town. It became a popular center of pilgrimage after a young girl from the town had visions of the Virgin Mary in a nearby grotto.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

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⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.5%
Male
0.5%

Almost all of the babies given the name Lourdes (99.5%) were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Lourdes alive today is about 42 years old, and 46% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 25 and 58 in 2025.

Under 30 4,262
31.4%
30 to 59 6,263
46.1%
60 and over 3,054
22.5%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Lourdes first appears in the records in 1916 and was given most often in 1963, to 333 babies. In 2025, 58 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1916 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Lourdes has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #532, in 1963 and 1966. In 2025 it ranked #2,917.

Girls
Rank in 2025#2,917
Best rank#532 (1963 and 1966)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#559 in the 1960s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Lourdes alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Lourdes were born in California than in any other state: about 3,605 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Lourdes was given 3.3 times as often in New York, 2.6 times in California and 2.4 times in Florida.

California 3,605
New York 2,762
Texas 1,792
Florida 1,061
Illinois 657
New Jersey 523
Arizona 318
Michigan 140
New Mexico 80
Massachusetts 58
Georgia 56
Connecticut 53
Pennsylvania 51
Washington 37
North Carolina 25
Nevada 23
Ohio 22
Colorado 19
Virginia 17
Indiana 11
Maryland 10
Iowa 5
Hawaii 3

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