Given name & surname
Lourdes
“from the place of healing and miracles”
Lourdes is used as a given name and a surname. One French interpretation is “from the place of healing and miracles.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One French interpretation is “from the place of healing and miracles.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is French.
How it developed
Possibly from French Lourdes, from Medieval Latin Lorus.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lourdes through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 14,874
- 69 boys · 14,805 girls
- Most popular year
- 1963
- 333 babies
- 2025
- 58
- #2,917 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −19%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 58 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 2,917 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 18.9% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 333 in 1963. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (17). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 46,439 as a first name in 2020; 181 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.
Lourdes’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Lourdes has a diminutive in Lula. Lourdes has a related form in Lurdes. In Filipino usage, Lourdes has a diminutive in MARILOU.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Around the world
Lourdes has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its French roots to each of them.
4 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Luladiminutive · Spanish
- Lurdesvariant · Portuguese
- Mariloudiminutive · Tagalog
- Lourdesslikely variant
- Lordavariant
- Loordesvariant
- Louredesvariant
- Lourdettevariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Lourdes
- Lourdes Domínguez LinoSpanish tennis playerborn 1981
- Russian RedSpanish singer-songwriterborn 1985
- Lourdes FloresPeruvian politicianborn 1959
- Lourdes BenedictoAmerican actressborn 1974
- Lovi PoeFilipino actress and singer (born 1991)born 1989
- Lourdes MohedanoSpanish rhythmic gymnastborn 1995
- Lourdes J. CruzFilipino biochemistborn 1942
- Lourdes OyarbideSpanish bicycle racerborn 1994
- Lourdes Gurriel Jr.Cuban professional baseball playerborn 1993
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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