About the name Lurdes
Lurdes belongs to the 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, Lurdes first appears in Social Security records in 1953. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #3548 in 1969, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 423 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.