Entry № 6111 · Spanish origin

Lupita Lupita — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ loo-PEE-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Our Lady of Guadalupe (Lupita Nyong'o)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Spanish)

A name that means "our lady of guadalupe (lupita nyong'o)".

Lupita is the Mexican-Spanish diminutive of Guadalupe — from the Arabic wadi al-lub ("wolf valley") via the Spanish shrine, and especially a name honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe, the apparition of the Virgin Mary to Saint Juan Diego on Tepeyac Hill outside Mexico City in 1531.

Our Lady of Guadalupe.

The name in its native script.

Lupita
Transliteration
Lupita
Pronunciation
/ luːˈpiː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lupita stands.

Lupita does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Lupitas before her.

Real people
Lupita Nyong'o
Mexican-Kenyan Oscar actress.
born 1983
In fiction
Nakia
Black Panther.
2018

Names connected to Lupita.

The number behind Lupita.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lupita reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.