Lulu

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Lulu: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Lulu: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #738 in 2009, and it stood at #1,491 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#738highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2683
1997	#1802
1998	#1979
1999	#2770
2000	#1995
2001	#962
2002	#962
2003	#909
2004	#821
2005	#769
2006	#1087
2007	#963
2008	#845
2009	#738
2010	#840
2011	#858
2012	#844
2013	#1220
2014	#1120
2015	#1405
2016	#1327
2017	#1184
2018	#1272
2019	#1119
2020	#1397
2021	#1102
2022	#1501
2023	#1410
2024	#1491

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2015: #896 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1405 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2683 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #738 among girls in England and Wales, in 2009 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1491 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Lulu appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 758 births with the name.

Lulu across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Lulu's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#2683 (1996)	#738 (2009)	#1491 (2024)	29 of 29	758 (1996–2024)	49 (2009)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#750 (2008)	#750 (2008)	#896 (2015)	3 of 8	10 (2008–2015)	4 (2008)

Lulu by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Lulu in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	27	4 of 10	7
2000s	294	10 of 10	29
2010sbusiest	321	10 of 10	32
2020s	116	5 of 10	23

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 32 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Lulu appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #738 in England and Wales in 2009.

Lulu's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1491	21	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1410	22	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1501	20	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1102	31	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1397	22	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1119	30	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1272	26	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1184	29	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1327	25	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1405	23	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1120	31	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1220	28	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#844	45	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#858	42	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#840	42	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#738	49	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#845	39	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#963	31	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1087	25	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#769	37	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#821	33	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#909	27	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#962	23	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#962	22	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1995	8	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2770	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1979	8	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1802	9	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2683	5	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #738, first reached in 2009.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 49 births, registered in England and Wales in 2009.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 12 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Lula · #632, 27y
Lulah · #2170, 12y
Lumi · #885, 13y
Luna · #30, 34y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Giorgio · #738, 30y
Flavia · #736, 29y
Isadora · #736, 30y
Ishani · #736, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Giorgio · #738, 30y
Safiyah · #739, 29y
Amba · #736, 28y
Flavia · #736, 29y

Lulu was ranked #738 in England and Wales · Girls in 2009. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Lulu and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Lulu without appearing here.

Lulu moved ahead of

Evan Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2770 and #2770 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #962 and #3998.
Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1995 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #962 and #3998.
Cheryl Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1995 and #1313 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #962 and #3262.
Jeanette Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2683 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1802 and #3824.

Moved ahead of Lulu

Meabh Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1102 and #1286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1501 and #1142.
Frida Compare
In 2012 they stood at #844 and #1210 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1220 and #925.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1120 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1405 and #1240.
Ida Compare
In 2010 they stood at #840 and #878 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #858 and #749.

Moved the opposite way to Lulu

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lulu went from #2683 to #1491 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lulu went from #2683 to #1491 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lulu went from #2683 to #1491 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lulu went from #2683 to #1491 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Lulu

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lulu went from #2683 to #1491 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lulu went from #2683 to #1491 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lulu went from #2683 to #1491 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lulu went from #2683 to #1491 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #738 in England and Wales in 2009. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Lulu

Lulu at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Lulu across 2 official records

Lulu by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Lulu across 2 official records

Lulu by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Lulu appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Lulu

Lulu and the names beside it

Lulu moved ahead of

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