Lupe
Lupe was the 14243rd most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 6 babies. Its best year was 1927, when it ranked 317th with 443 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved down 1,725 places. More babies were named Lupe in the 1940s than in any other decade.
Meaning pet form of Guadalupe · Spanish, Arabic
Say it LOO-pay /ˈlupeɪ/
- Rank in 2025
- #14,243 girls, up 2,332 places since 2020
- Babies in 2025
- 6girls
- Girls and boys
- 65% girls, 35% boys2021–2025
- Peak year
- 1927443 babies
- Total since 1880
- 24,646babies recorded
What does the name Lupe mean?
Lupe is the pet form of Guadalupe, a Spanish name taken from Our Lady of Guadalupe, a title of the Virgin Mary venerated in Spain and Mexico. The place-name Guadalupe is originally a river in Spain, named in the Arabic period with wadi, "river, valley". Wiktionary cites a scholarly article (Stoudemire, Names, 1978) doubting the popular Arabic-Latin "river of the wolf" reading and proposing "river of black stones". Lupe was most common in the US in the 1920s to 1940s.
وادي (Arabic, “wadi, river, valley”)
How sure is this? Probable. The Guadalupe place-name is of Arabic origin, but its second element is debated.
Other explanations you may read: Guadalupe means 'river of the wolf' (Arabic wadi + Latin lupus).
Related names: Guadalupe, Lupita.
See also: Spanish names, names from places.
Sources for this meaning
- Wiktionary, entry 'Lupe', Wiktionary (Wikimedia Foundation)
- Wiktionary, entry 'Guadalupe', Wiktionary (Wikimedia Foundation)
Lupe popularity since 1880
| Year | Rank (girls) | Rank (boys) | Babies (girls) | Babies (boys) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #14,243 | #10,285 | 6 | 7 |
| 2020 | #16,575 | — | 5 | — |
| 2010 | #12,988 | #11,649 | 8 | 6 |
| 2000 | #7,018 | #5,215 | 15 | 14 |
| 1990 | #2,549 | #3,260 | 47 | 19 |
| 1980 | #1,415 | #1,754 | 88 | 33 |
| 1970 | #1,047 | #1,150 | 118 | 52 |
| 1960 | #619 | #817 | 264 | 88 |
| 1950 | #512 | #684 | 253 | 100 |
| 1940 | #353 | #593 | 333 | 100 |
| 1930 | #326 | #574 | 405 | 109 |
| 1920 | #391 | #872 | 284 | 62 |
| 1910 | #613 | #1,272 | 47 | 8 |
| 1900 | #907 | #944 | 18 | 9 |
| 1890 | #1,289 | — | 6 | — |
| 1880 | — | — | — | — |
How popular is Lupe, counting every spelling?
Lupe has no other common spelling that sounds the same.
How many kids will share the name Lupe?
6 of the 3,606,400 babies born in the US in 2025 were named Lupe (0.00 per 1,000 births). For a girl named Lupe born in 2025, the chance that another child with the same name is in a class of 20 children the same age is under 1 in 50. If every grade liked the name as much as the 2025 babies do, only about one elementary school in 1,368 (of 430 pupils) would have a child named Lupe.
Shares of all registered births (NCHS); classes assumed to be children born the same year. How we estimate this.
How old are people named Lupe?
About 8,300 people born in the US named Lupe are alive today, with a median age of 69; half are between 57 and 80. That makes Lupe a name most people associate with older generations.
Babies given the name each year (SSA) times the share of that birth year still alive (SSA life tables). Counts people born in the US only. Method.
Names with a similar history
These names rose and fell in step with Lupe: their share of US girls followed the most similar curve since 1880. If you like Lupe, they share its era and feel.
Lupe is also a nickname for Guadalupe.
Questions about the name Lupe
What does Lupe mean?
Lupe means “pet form of Guadalupe” (Spanish, Arabic origin). Certainty: probable.
How popular is the name Lupe?
Lupe was the 14243rd most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 6 babies. Its best year was 1927, when it ranked 317th with 443 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved down 1,725 places. More babies were named Lupe in the 1940s than in any other decade.
Is Lupe a boy or girl name?
In 2021–2025, 65% girls, 35% boys given the name Lupe in the US.