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Lalla

Girls' name

Tulip

Lalla has been given to 324 babies in the U.S. since 1885. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1920, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Lalla, 2010

1 in 739,000

Lalla over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lalla: meaning, origin, and history

Tulip

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lalla means

Lalla means “tulip”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lalla is used in Literature.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 324 girls were recorded with the name Lalla between 1885 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1920; its best national rank was #923 in 1888.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Lalla?

Lalla had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2010
1 in 739,000
5 of 3,695,928 births
Among girls only
1 in 355,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2010
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
512,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lalla sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2010 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 512,366 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lalla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lallas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lalla was born before 1920 — so the typical Lalla is around 105 today.

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
25.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
33
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 25.3% of all recorded uses (82).

Is Lalla rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1920 (15)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#923
1888

Spellings of Lalla

Lalla is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 19.5% against Lalla's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Lalla around the world

Where Lalla ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1969–2025
    #3,518
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2002–2002
    #730
    in 2002

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lalla by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#923
1888
Peak year
1920
15 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
324
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lalla

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Lalla

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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