Girl · French place name
Lourdes
Say it: LOOR-des
Meaning
From the French town of Lourdes, after the Marian apparitions reported there in 1858; the place name itself is of uncertain pre-Latin origin.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Taken up across Latin America after 1858, usually as María de Lourdes.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 1960s
In the United States
- 14,521 babies given this name since 1916
- At its height in 1968, about 1 in 5,300 girls
- 74 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
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The family of the name
Other spellings: Lulú
| French | Lourdes |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | Lurdes |
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Where this comes from
- Calendars of saints and name days
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- Parish baptism registers
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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