Lurlie

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Lurlie has been given to 99 babies in the U.S. since 1890. 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 1922, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Lurlie, 1952

1 in 759,000

Lurlie over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lurlie: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lurlie means

Lurlie is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Lurlie is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 99 girls were recorded with the name Lurlie between 1890 and 1952. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1922; its best national rank was #1,444 in 1890.

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 Lurlie?

Lurlie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1952, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1952: 1 in 759,000; 5 of 3,796,842 births
Among girls only: 1 in 371,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1952: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 526,355 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Lurlie 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 1952 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 526,355 children born in 1952 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lurlie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lurlies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lurlie was born before 1923 — so the typical Lurlie is around 102 today.

Median birth year: 1923; About 102 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 48.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 24.2%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 48.5% of all recorded uses (48).

Is Lurlie 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: —; 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 1922 (13)
Years since peak: 103; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 48.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,444; 1890

Spellings of Lurlie

Lurlie is not the most common spelling — Julie is, with 42.2% against Lurlie's <0.01%.

Julie42.2%511,253
Leslie22.3%270,429
Laurie13.8%166,488
Lillie13.1%158,918
Lorie1.8%21,964
Lorrie1.4%17,342
Carlie1.2%15,019
Karlie0.95%11,486

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.

Lurlie 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: #1,444; 1890
Peak year: 1922; 13 that year
First recorded: 1890
Last recorded: 1952
All-time count: 99
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Lurlie

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

Caelie Bexlie Enslie Idalie Arelie Trulie Laylie Airlie Lynlie Anelie Hazlie Azalie Evalie Avalie Avelie Italie Lurana Noelie Joellie Yeslie Renlie Steelie Wrenlie Lurae

Sibling names for Lurlie

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

For a sister

Albertha Bethel Verla Elvera Rubie Tressie Filomena Philomena

For a brother

Trinidad Hobert Harland Walton Elden Cletus Elroy Columbus

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