Tulip
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #5,916 for girls
Tulip is a girls' name of English origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,916th for girls in the US (20 babies).
What does Tulip mean?
English
A female given name from English, of rare usage.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Tulip a girl's or a boy's name?
Tulip is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 20 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Tulip in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2011, with 9 girls.
Half of all the girls named Tulip in the UK since 1996 were born between 2011 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Tulip in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 7 | #3,347 |
| 2021 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 6 | #3,738 |
| 2018 | 8 | #3,068 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 6 | #3,788 |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 8 | #3,060 |
| 2012 | 5 | #4,390 |
| 2011 | 9 | #2,794 |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,931 |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 5 | #4,065 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 1 | #6,685 |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
How popular is Tulip in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,916among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 20about 1 in 80,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 24% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 20 girls in the US were named Tulip, making it the 5,916th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,001st. Its busiest year was 2018, with 32 girls. It first appears in the records in 2006.
2025 had fewer girls named Tulip than any year since 2016.
Half of all the girls named Tulip in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Tulip in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,916 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,612 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,386 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,462 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,087 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,001 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,772 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,356 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,817 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,926 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,031 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,628 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
Names like Tulip
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Poppy River Primrose Harper Esme Dua Pippa Isla Willow Ayra Freya Arya
More English names
Lily Evelyn Hudson Ivy Grace Violet Daisy Riley Oakley Mason Cooper Ruby Hallie Hazel Carter Harrison
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Tulip: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tulip, updated 20 October 2026.