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Lurena vs Lurline

American parents have registered 1,885 Lurlines since 1880, against 429 Lurenas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lurena against Lurline, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lurena Lurline

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 80 years in which either name was published, Lurline for 75 years and Lurena for 5 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Lurena Lurline
Total US births 4291,885
Most in one year 1675
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 90310
Median age today 7477
Peak year 19171921
Best rank 2,100th girls853rd girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18881887
Girls / boys 429 / 01,885 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Lurlines alive today are over 77; half the Lurenas are over 74. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lurena and Lurline.