Lupe
About 24,646 American babies have been named Lupe since 1885, most of them around 1927. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 13,208th. About 11,000 Lupes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 67.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lupe boys named Lupe
Girls and boys called Lupe
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 18,621 girls and 6,025 boys in all, and in 2005 the split was 16 to 10.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 99 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 24,646
- Estimated living today
- 11,000
- Median age today
- 67
- Peak year
- 1927
- Best rank
- 317th
- Rank in 2025
- 13,208th
- First recorded
- 1885
- Girls / boys
- 18,621 / 6,025
How old the living Lupes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 24,646 babies given the name since 1885, about 11,000 are alive — 46 in every hundred. Roughly 200 of them are children and 6,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1958 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Spanish
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Lupes
- Lupe Ontiveros (1942–2012)American actress
People named Lupe with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lupe is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lupe is most concentrated in New Mexico (10.2×), Arizona (6.3×), Texas (6.1×), California (3.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1927
The most popular girls’ names the year Lupe peaked:
Lupe elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium girls | Lupe | 13 | 1,084th |
| England and Wales girls | Lupe | 3 | 5,742nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Lupe: rank by region
In 2010, Lupe was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Lupe | 631 | 8 |
In 2019, Lupe was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Lupe | 10 | 1 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Where Lupe lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 217 women called Lupe were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gipuzkoa | Lupe | 7 | 0.019 | 2,146 |
| Coruña, A | Lupe | 11 | 0.019 | 1,798 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Lupe | 15 | 0.015 | 3,137 |
| Balears, Illes | Lupe | 9 | 0.014 | 3,180 |
| Pontevedra | Lupe | 6 | 0.012 | 2,359 |
| Madrid | Lupe | 43 | 0.012 | 3,321 |
Listed in 12 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 40 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Lupe against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.