Lula
About Lula
Lula is one of the livelier nickname-names with the fashionable double-L sound: It joins Lulu, Lila, Lily, and Lou among the trendiest names today. Lula might be short for Talula and sisters or for Lucy or Louise, or may stand on its own two adorable feet. Lula was actually a Top 50 name in the late 1880's and continued in the Top 100 for a couple of decades more.
Bryan Adams named his second daughter Lula Rosylea, sister of Mirabella Bunny, and master character namer J. K. Rowling has a Lula in her novel The Cuckoo's Calling.
Pronounced LOO-luh.
As of October 2026, Lula ranked #1937 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #36 in 1881, Nameberry popularity #762.
Editor's take: The name Lula is a girl's name of Spanish origin.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,189 | 87 | 48.7 |
| 2015 | #2,007 | 99 | 55.5 |
| 2016 | #1,767 | 118 | 66.6 |
| 2017 | #1,774 | 118 | 68.3 |
| 2018 | #1,859 | 109 | 64.1 |
| 2019 | #1,759 | 117 | 69.7 |
| 2020 | #1,724 | 117 | 72.4 |
| 2021 | #1,512 | 140 | 85.3 |
| 2022 | #1,970 | 100 | 61 |
| 2023 | #1,830 | 110 | 68.6 |
| 2024 | #1,958 | 101 | 62.3 |
| 2025 | #1,937 | 100 | 62.2 |
World rankings
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- Prue
- Percy
- Junie
- Posey
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- Honor
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Lula on lists
Famous Lulas
- Lula Carson Smith
birth name of Carson McCullers, American novelist
- (Louisa) Lula Greene Richards
American poet and editor
- Lula Mae Hardaway
American songwriter and mother of singer Stevie Wonder
- Lula Ethridge Wardlow
American businesswoman, minister and politician
- Lula Grace Johnson
birth name of Jan Howard, American country music singer
- Lula Rosylea Grimaldi
Adams (b. 2013), daughter of singer Bryan Adams
- Lula Rose Gardner (b. 2016)
daughter of actress Liv Tyler
- Lullah June Hull
daughter of musician Kid Harpoon and Jenny Myles
- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva aka Lula
male president of Brazil
Lula in pop culture
- Lula
main character in David Lynch’s 1991 film “Wild At Heart”
- Lula Landry
a character in J.K. Rowling's novel "The Cuckoo"
- Lula Mae Barnes
birth name of Holly Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
- Lula May
character in the movie "Now You See Me 2"
- "Lula Walls
" song by The Carter Family ("Such a star I've never seen/She's as pretty as a queen/She's as perfect as an angel from above")
- Lula
European magazine
- Lula
meaning "squid, cuttlefish" in Portuguese