Lourdes
Lourdes reached its high-water mark in 1963 at number 532, and has been recorded 14,874 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 2,895th. About 14,000 Lourdeses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 43.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lourdes boys named Lourdes
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 14,874
- Estimated living today
- 14,000
- Median age today
- 43
- Peak year
- 1963
- Best rank
- 532nd
- Rank in 2025
- 2,895th
- First recorded
- 1916
- Girls / boys
- 14,805 / 69
How old the living Lourdeses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 14,874 babies given the name since 1916, about 14,000 are alive — 91 in every hundred. Roughly 1,700 of them are children and 1,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1982 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
From French Lourdes, corruption of Medieval Latin Lorus (778), the baptismal name taken by a Moorish leader who converted to Christianity, though of unknown ultimate meaning.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Lourdess
- Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo (1930–2004)Portuguese politician
- Lourdes Domínguez Lino (born 1981)Spanish tennis player
- Lourdes Flores Nano (born 1959)Peruvian politician
- Lourdes Benedicto (born 1974)American actress
- Lourdes Mohedano (born 1995)Spanish rhythmic gymnast
- María Lourdes Carlé (born 2000)Argentine tennis player
People named Lourdes with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lourdes is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lourdes is most concentrated in New York (3.3×), California (3.1×), Florida (2.6×), Arizona (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1963
The most popular girls’ names the year Lourdes peaked:
Lourdes elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Lourdes +1 spelling | 510 | 629th |
| England and Wales girls | Lourdes | 191 | 1,903rd |
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.
Lourdes among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Lourdes | 13 | 36 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Lourdes lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 39,275 women called Lourdes 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huesca | Lourdes | 375 | 3.321 | 58 |
| Lleida | Lourdes | 661 | 2.967 | 64 |
| Cádiz | Lourdes | 1,876 | 2.928 | 77 |
| Córdoba | Lourdes | 999 | 2.528 | 85 |
| Badajoz | Lourdes | 840 | 2.493 | 90 |
| Jaén | Lourdes | 763 | 2.444 | 85 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Lourdes 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.