Lala
Lala is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 14 births. Its best rank was 738th, in 1900.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 140.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192139 births
- Best rank
- #738in 1900
- Since 1884
- 1,765people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,765 girls have been named Lala in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 39 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 13 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lala | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 44 | |
| 1890s | 119 | |
| 1900s | 138 | |
| 1910s | 278 | |
| 1920s | 335 | |
| 1930s | 194 | |
| 1940s | 148 | |
| 1950s | 96 | |
| 1960s | 68 | |
| 1970s | 36 | |
| 1980s | 39 | |
| 1990s | 21 | |
| 2000s | 94 | |
| 2010s | 106 | |
| 2020s | 49 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Lala was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Lala
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Zettiepeak 1924
- Elenorapeak 1917
- Leontinepeak 1918
- Vellapeak 1915
- Rossiepeak 1919
- Delphiapeak 1924
- Elsiepeak 1918
- Beulapeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.