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Luretta vs Lurline

American parents have registered 1,885 Lurlines since 1880, against 341 Lurettas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Luretta 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 78 years in which either name was published, Lurline for 77 years and Luretta for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Luretta Lurline
Total US births 3411,885
Most in one year 1575
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 90310
Median age today 7877
Peak year 19231921
Best rank 2,366th girls853rd girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19041887
Girls / boys 341 / 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.

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