Lourdes
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lourdes is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Paraguay it is the 59th most common given name. In Spanish, recorded as a female given name transferred from the place name.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 370(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 675
- ECEcuador1 in 678
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- #726 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 408 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 370 (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the Marian pilgrimage site of Lourdes in France; place name of uncertain origin.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Lourdes is read(measured from records)
Lourdes is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish67%
a female given name transferred from the place name
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
De la advocación francesa de Nuestra Señora de Lourdes, por el topónimo vasco Lorde/Lourde.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English13%
College, OH
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
town, France
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Portuguese11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lourdes in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lourdes counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #140 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 675 | — | Lourdes | 127 |
| BR Brazil | — | 57,791 | 1 in 3.7K | 84K | — | 4 |
| US United States | — | 46,439 | 1 in 7.2K | 46K | Lourdes | 408 |
| PE Peru | #116 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 699 | — | Lourdes | 94 |
| ES Spain | #135 | 39,275 | 1 in 1.3K | 40K | Lourdes | 208 |
| EC Ecuador | #71 | 24,934 | 1 in 678 | 25K | Lourdes | 67 |
| BO Bolivia | #543 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 574 | — | Lourdes | 56 |
| PY Paraguay | #59 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 370 | — | Lourdes | 49 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 7,468 | 1 in 454 | 7.5K | — | 70 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lourdes is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, From the Marian pilgrimage site of Lourdes in France; place name of uncertain origin.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Religious name borne by Roman Catholics, referring to the place in southern France where a shrine was established after a young peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous, had visions of the Virgin Mary and uncovered a healing spring in 1858. In recent times, Lourdes has become a major centre for pilgrimage, especially by people suffering from various illnesses or physical handicaps.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgob. 1930PTPortuguese politician (1930–2004)
- Lou Leon Guerrerob. 1950USnot in their usual nameGuamanian politician
- Lourdes Floresb. 1959PEPeruvian politician
- Lourdes Benedictob. 1974USAmerican actress
- Lourdes Domínguez Linob. 1981ESSpanish tennis player
- Russian Redb. 1985ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer-songwriter
- Lovi Poeb. 1989PHnot in their usual nameFilipino actress and singer (born 1991)
- Lourdes Gurriel Jr.b. 1993CUCuban professional baseball player
- Lourdes Mohedanob. 1995ESSpanish rhythmic gymnast
- Lourdes Leonb. 1996USAmerican singer, dancer, and fashion model
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 74 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 65K | #648 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 58K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 58K | #514 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 46K | #950 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 40K | #113 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 39K | #206 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 25K | #80 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 7.5K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 7.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 255 | #514 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 154 | #950 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 144 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Lourdes come from?
- From the Marian pilgrimage site of Lourdes in France; place name of uncertain origin. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Lourdes a male or female name?
- Lourdes is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Lourdes mean?
- In Spanish, a female given name transferred from the place name
- What are other forms of the name Lourdes?
- In the etymology graph, Lurdes is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Lourdes have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 162 thousand people named Lourdes in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lourdes.
- How common is the name Lourdes?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 57,791 people named Lourdes in 2022, about 1 in 3.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Lourdes compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Lourdes is the 140th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lourdes” — the 140th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.