Lou
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
#2,674
down −153 places
2025 births
65
down −6 births
All-time births
34,109
0% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1954
- 1,495 births
- Best rank
- #125
- in 1880
- First recorded
- 1880
- #125 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1940
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 144 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 19541,495#204Peak
- 19531,434#208
- 19551,225#232
- 19561,066#259
- 1957884#309
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #125 in 1880 · peak births 1,495 in 1954
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 11% boys■ 89% girls
4,089 boys · 34,109 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Lou has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.