About the name Lula
Lula belongs to the Spanish and Portuguese tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Lula first appears in Social Security records in 1880. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #36 in 1881, and in 2024 101 babies received the name — 85,146 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.