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Lurdes

Girls' name

Variant of Lourdes

Lurdes has been given to 423 babies in the U.S. since 1953. 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 1977, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Lurdes, 2011

1 in 732,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lurdes: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Lourdes

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lurdes means

Lurdes is a variant of Lourdes.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lurdes is used in Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lourdes.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Lurdes is pronounced /ˈluʁ.d͡ʒis/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 423 girls were recorded with the name Lurdes between 1953 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1977; its best national rank was #3,546 in 1969.

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 Lurdes?

Lurdes had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,099 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lurdes 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 2011 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 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lurdes. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lurdess were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lurdes was born before 1978 — so the typical Lurdes is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
25.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
423
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 25.3% of all recorded uses (107).

Is Lurdes 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1977 (17)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,546
1969

Spellings of Lurdes

Lurdes is not the most common spelling — Lourdes is, with 97.2% against Lurdes's 2.8%.

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 Lurdes is used

Across 1910–2025, Lurdes was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 384,907 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

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. Lurdes has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lurdes around the world

Where Lurdes 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
    1959–1984
    #3,133
    in 1984

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Lurdes 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
—
Best rank ever
#3,546
1969
Peak year
1977
17 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
423
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lurdes

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

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Sibling names for Lurdes

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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