Lula

Where Lula comes from

19th-century variant of Lulu, nickname of Louisa and Lucy. In rare cases, shortened from Tallulah.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lula
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #39 among girls — 621 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #36
    655 babies named Lula — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1957
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #547.
  4. 1974
    Lula Pena born
    Fado and World music singer, composer and poet from Lisbon, Portugal
  5. 1978
    Lula Ali Ismail born
    Djibouti-Canadian filmmaker (* 1978)
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Lula Ali Ismail · Djibouti-Canadian filmmaker (* 1978), born 1978
  • Lula Pena · Fado and World music singer, composer and poet from Lisbon, Portugal, born 1974
  • Lula Mysz-Gmeiner · concert contralto and academic voice teacher, 1876–1948
  • Lula Greene Richards · American print editor, 1849–1944
  • Lula Reed · American singer, 1926–2008

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.