Lurline
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lurline has been given to 1,885 babies in the U.S. since 1887. 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 1921, with 75 recorded.
Babies named Lurline, 1970
1 in 721,000
Lurline over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Lurline?
Lurline had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1970, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1970
- 1 in 721,000
- 5 of 3,606,302 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 350,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1970
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 499,941 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lurline sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1970 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 499,941 children born in 1970 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lurline. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lurlines were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lurline was born before 1923 — so the typical Lurline is around 102 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 29.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 12.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 159
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 29.3% of all recorded uses (552).
Is Lurline 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 1921 (75)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.7% average annual change
Spellings of Lurline
Lurline is not the most common spelling — Arline is, with 20.6% against Lurline's 2.2%.
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 Lurline is used
Across 1910–2025, Lurline was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 71,420 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Hawaii1 in 12,500
- 2Louisiana1 in 16,667
- 3Mississippi1 in 25,000
- 4Alabama1 in 33,333
- 5South Carolina1 in 33,333
- 6Arkansas1 in 100,000
- 7Georgia1 in 100,000
- 8Tennessee1 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. Lurline has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Lurline around the world
Where Lurline 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.
- South Australia1948–1984#661in 1984
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Lurline by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lurline
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lurline
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.