How rare is the name Guadalupe?

128,245 people in the United States have the first name Guadalupe, about 1 in 2,355. It ranks #441 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

GUADALUPE

#441

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
128,245
About
1 in 2,355
This common or more
56.1%
Who bears it

Of the 128,245 people named Guadalupe, 98.5% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino and 1% as White. 78.1% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Guadalupe peaked in 1997, when 1,656 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1997
Births that year
1,656
In 2025*
204 ▼88%
Recorded as
mostly female

At least 91,997 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Guadalupe by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #423. The largest share of babies named Guadalupe, 24.3%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1880s#1,164117
1890s#880280
1900s#671619
1910s#6532,340
1920s#4915,910
1930s#5065,093
1940s#4677,812
1950s#5308,966
1960s#6566,639
1970s#5608,057
1980s#5518,726
1990s#42314,490
2000s#46414,566
2010s#9176,749
2020s#1,8081,633
Before 19010.5%
Greatest Generation 1901–278.2%
Silent Generation 1928–4511.1%
Baby boom 1946–6417.6%
Generation X 1965–8013.4%
Millennials 1981–9619%
Generation Z 1997–1224.3%
2013 and later5.8%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Guadalupe is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Guadalupe has been most common in Texas (5.6×), New Mexico (3.4×), and Arizona (3.3×), and least common in Ohio (0.02×).

85,549 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Also a last name

As a last name, Guadalupe ranks #6,856 of 156,621, with 4,723 people. See Guadalupe as a last name

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