Luc

#3,450 for boys in 2025, 33 births

Peak · boys
2002 · 172 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
3,614
since 1949

Luc over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Luc has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201949peak #930, 2002boys
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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
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#3,45033
2024#3,39434
2023#3,47433
2022#2,16867
2021#2,30060
2020#2,50551
2019#2,36457
2018#2,16764
2017#1,87178
2016#1,65596
2015#1,82681
2014#1,73087
2013#1,63693
2012#1,71188
2011#1,58797
2010#1,368124
2009#1,594100
2008#1,284135
2007#1,387118
2006#1,224137
2005#1,081152
2004#1,049154
2003#1,029153
2002#930172
2001#1,014147
2000#1,048137
1999#1,181109
1998#1,205102
1997#1,169103
1996#1,22691
1995#1,27584
1994#1,97742
1993#1,37970
1992#1,82045
1991#2,29531
1990#1,94639
1989#4,27112
1988#2,03531
1987#4,23910
1986#4,13010
1985#4,05210
1984#2,36421
1983#2,40820
1982#3,10814
1981#3,60111
1980#2,72917
1979#4,0689
1978#3,61410
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1976#3,09512
1975#4,3097
1974
1973#3,6948
1972#3,15210
1971#3,9637
1970#4,2306
1969
1968#2,9079
1967#2,47011
1966#3,5376
1965#2,08415
1964#2,8549
1963#2,67310
1962#3,0418
1961#2,9009
1960#2,8719
1959#3,0378
1958#3,5596
1957#2,8229
1956#3,9425
1955
1954#3,4526
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1949#3,6905
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First appearance
1949

The first year at least five boys were named Luc! It came in at #3,690, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1949–1953, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Luc
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 56 spots since 2024 (#3,394#3,450)
  • 945 spots since 2020 (#2,505#3,450)
  • 1,624 spots since 2015 (#1,826#3,450)
  • Biggest jump: 84 spots in 2002 (#1,014#930)
  • Biggest drop: 99 spots in 2003 (#930#1,029)
Rise & fade · boys
53 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1949
  • Peaked 2002 at #930 (172 births)
  • Births halved by 2015, 13 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2002
Share of babies · boys
1 in 11,288
  • Highest: 1 in 11,288 boys born in 2002 were named Luc (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 51,760 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 38.9% of all boys named Luc (1,405) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s5#3,690 (1949)#3,690
1950s34#2,822 (1957)#3,362
1960s86#2,084 (1965)#2,815
1970s69#3,095 (1976)#3,766
1980s156#2,035 (1988)#3,294
1990s716#1,169 (1997)#1,547
2000s1,405#930 (2002)#1,164
2010s865#1,368 (2010)#1,792
2020s278#2,168 (2022)#2,882

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

Luc in 1949

boys
#3,690
5 births · 1 in 354,788 boys

Top boys' names in 1949

  1. #1James86,858
  2. #2Robert83,873
  3. #3John81,178
  4. #4William61,506
  5. #5Michael60,047
  6. #6David59,611
  7. #7Richard50,946
  8. #8Thomas45,192
  9. #9Charles40,052
  10. #10Larry31,819
  11. #3,690Luc5
More about 1949

boys

1,773,939 boys got a published name in 1949; 1 in 354,788 of them was named Luc, which outranked 12.2% of the 4,205 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Luc
  1. #3,298Zan6
  2. #3,298Zed6
  3. #3,298Zollie6
  4. #3,690Luc5
  5. #3,690Abundio5
  6. #3,690Alberta5
  7. #3,690Aldine5

Tied with 515 names at #3,690; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1948
Risers
  1. 538Lannie#1,107#569
  2. 411Lenwood#1,296#885
  3. 338Robby#1,296#958
  4. 326Ocie#1,323#997
  5. 319Denzil#1,127#808
Fallers
  1. 473Loyal#989#1,462
  2. 446Rich#963#1,409
  3. 395Brock#733#1,128
  4. 376Baron#972#1,348
  5. 333Murry#989#1,322

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

See the top 100 for 1949