Given name & surname
Lobo
“resembling a wolf”
Lobo is used as a given name and a surname. One Spanish interpretation is “resembling a wolf.”
Original SpanishLope
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Spanish interpretation is “resembling a wolf.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Spanish.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2021. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lobo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 21
- 21 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,716 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lobo’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Lobo shares an earlier linguistic root with Lope. Lobo has a related form in Loboe. Lobo has a related form in Lobow.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 14
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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