Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Lurleen is a variant of Lorelei. An origin associated with Lorelei is German.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lurleen through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 126
- 0 boys · 126 girls
- Most popular year
- 1968
- 20 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 girls is 9 in 1969. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 20 in 1968. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 114 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lurleen’s family of names
Lurleen has a related form in Lorelei.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Lurleen
Characters named Lurleen: Lurleen Lumpkin (the television series The Simpsons).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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