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Lalo

#7,991 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of Eduardo

Lalo has been given to 585 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #7,991 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Lalo, 2025

1 in 332,000

Lalo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lalo: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Eduardo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lalo means

Lalo is a diminutive of Eduardo.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Lalo → Eduardo → Eduardo → Ēadweard. The family’s meaning is “happiness, prosperity + guard”, recorded in Old English with the source elements ēad and weard.

Origin, language, and formation

Lalo is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eduardo, Álvaro, Braulio, Ladislao and Eulalio.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Lalo is pronounced /ˈlalo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 585 boys were recorded with the name Lalo between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2023; its best national rank was #2,258 in 1932.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,408 in 2020 to #7,991 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,521 in 2015 to #7,991 in 2025.

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.

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How common is Lalo?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,991
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lalo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lalo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lalos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lalo was born before 1977 — so the typical Lalo is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
14.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
374
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 14.7% of all recorded uses (86).

Is Lalo 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
−1,939
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,417
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,530
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.67×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.6%
Peak was 2023 (18)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,258
1932

Spellings of Lalo

Lalo is not the most common spelling — Dale is, with 26.9% against Lalo's 0.06%.

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.

Where Lalo is used

Across 1910–2025, Lalo was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 527,748 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Lalo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lalo around the world

Where Lalo 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.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    2000–2025
    #3,239
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1978–2004
    #589
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lalo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,991
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,417
Best rank ever
#2,258
1932
Peak year
2023
18 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
585
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Lalo

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

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Sibling names for Lalo

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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