Lua

#2,076 for girls in 2025, 90 births

Peak · girls
2023 · 114 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,089
since 1910

Lua over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Lua has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201910girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025#2,07690
2024#1,98099
2023#1,780114
2022#1,856109
2021#1,926102
2020#1,95997
2019#2,17085
2018#2,07193
2017#3,62742
2016#5,98521
2015#5,45824
2014#4,26934
2013#6,01721
2012#5,71023
2011#5,93522
2010#6,64119
2009#9,97511
2008#8,96513
2007#11,6309
2006#12,4208
2005#13,0107
2004#14,1796
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First appearance
1910

The first year at least five girls were named Lua! It came in at #2,398, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1910–1977, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Lua
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 96 spots since 2024 (#1,980#2,076)
  • 117 spots since 2020 (#1,959#2,076)
  • 3,382 spots since 2015 (#5,458#2,076)
Rise & fade · girls
113 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1910
  • Peaked 2023 at #1,780 (114 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 14,075
  • Highest: 1 in 14,075 girls born in 2023 were named Lua (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 17,859 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 56.1% of all girls named Lua (611) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s5#2,398 (1910)#2,398
1920s0
1930s0
1940s0
1950s0
1960s0
1970s11#8,562 (1978)#8,669
1980s12#9,095 (1980)#9,166
1990s0
2000s66#8,965 (2008)#12,107
2010s384#2,071 (2018)#4,788
2020s611#1,780 (2023)#1,930

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Lua in 1910

girls
#2,398
5 births · 1 in 79,301 girls

Top girls' names in 1910

  1. #1Mary22,848
  2. #2Helen10,479
  3. #3Margaret8,226
  4. #4Dorothy7,318
  5. #5Ruth7,212
  6. #6Anna6,436
  7. #7Elizabeth5,800
  8. #8Mildred5,692
  9. #9Marie4,790
  10. #10Alice4,671
  11. #2,398Lua5
More about 1910

girls

396,503 girls got a published name in 1910; 1 in 79,301 of them was named Lua, which outranked 14.1% of the 2,790 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Lua
  1. #2,140Zeola6
  2. #2,140Zina6
  3. #2,140Zylphia6
  4. #2,398Lua5
  5. #2,398Adelaida5
  6. #2,398Adina5
  7. #2,398Adria5

Tied with 392 names at #2,398; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1909
Risers
  1. 960Alys#1,957#997
  2. 849Lannie#1,763#914
  3. 766Luz#1,763#997
  4. 762Vivien#1,607#845
  5. 693Buna#1,607#914
Fallers
  1. 864Earl#909#1,773
  2. 864Fleta#909#1,773
  3. 783Elba#990#1,773
  4. 644Odile#990#1,634
  5. 576Claribel#845#1,421

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1910