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Lupita

#3,232 in 2025Girls' name

Wolf, through Guadalupe

Lupita has been given to 5,770 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #3,232 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 159 recorded.

Babies named Lupita, 2025

1 in 67,700

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lupita: meaning, origin, and history

Wolf, through Guadalupe

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lupita means

Lupita belongs to the name family reached through Lupita → Guadalupe. Its meaning is “wolf”.

Origin, language, and formation

Lupita is used in Spanish.

Lupita comes through Indonesian diminutive.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Guadalupe.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Lupita is pronounced /luˈpita/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,770 girls were recorded with the name Lupita between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 159 in 2007; its best national rank was #1,400 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,391 in 2020 to #3,232 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,206 in 2015 to #3,232 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lupita?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 67,700
49 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 32,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,232
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
46,897 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lupita 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 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 46,897 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lupita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lupitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lupita was born before 1995 — so the typical Lupita is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
21.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,262
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 21.4% of all recorded uses (1,237).

Is Lupita 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
+637
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−841
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,026
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.57×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.8%
Peak was 2007 (159)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,400
1993

Spellings of Lupita

Lupita is not the most common spelling — Lucia is, with 51.8% against Lupita's 5.0%.

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 Lupita is used

Across 1910–2025, Lupita was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 5,263 girls, against 1 in 19,523 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

019 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 5,263
  2. 2California1 in 8,333
  3. 3New Mexico1 in 8,333
  4. 4Texas1 in 9,091
  5. 5Nevada1 in 25,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 33,333
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Lupita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lupita around the world

Where Lupita 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
    2022–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • France
    2006–2025
    #4,779
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Lupita

People whose public names include Lupita, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Lupita in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Lupita. Linked forms have their own page here.

Guadalupe

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Lupita by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,232
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 841
Best rank ever
#1,400
1993
Peak year
2007
159 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,770
Count in 2025
49

Names similar to Lupita

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

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Names with a curve like Lupita

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lupita, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Lupita

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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