Luc
#3,450 for boys in 2025, 33 births
- Peak · boys
- 2002 · 172 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,614since 1949
Luc over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Luc has never cracked the top 900 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,450 | 33 |
| 2024 | #3,394 | 34 |
| 2023 | #3,474 | 33 |
| 2022 | #2,168 | 67 |
| 2021 | #2,300 | 60 |
| 2020 | #2,505 | 51 |
| 2019 | #2,364 | 57 |
| 2018 | #2,167 | 64 |
| 2017 | #1,871 | 78 |
| 2016 | #1,655 | 96 |
| 2015 | #1,826 | 81 |
| 2014 | #1,730 | 87 |
| 2013 | #1,636 | 93 |
| 2012 | #1,711 | 88 |
| 2011 | #1,587 | 97 |
| 2010 | #1,368 | 124 |
| 2009 | #1,594 | 100 |
| 2008 | #1,284 | 135 |
| 2007 | #1,387 | 118 |
| 2006 | #1,224 | 137 |
| 2005 | #1,081 | 152 |
| 2004 | #1,049 | 154 |
| 2003 | #1,029 | 153 |
| 2002 | #930 | 172 |
| 2001 | #1,014 | 147 |
| 2000 | #1,048 | 137 |
| 1999 | #1,181 | 109 |
| 1998 | #1,205 | 102 |
| 1997 | #1,169 | 103 |
| 1996 | #1,226 | 91 |
| 1995 | #1,275 | 84 |
| 1994 | #1,977 | 42 |
| 1993 | #1,379 | 70 |
| 1992 | #1,820 | 45 |
| 1991 | #2,295 | 31 |
| 1990 | #1,946 | 39 |
| 1989 | #4,271 | 12 |
| 1988 | #2,035 | 31 |
| 1987 | #4,239 | 10 |
| 1986 | #4,130 | 10 |
| 1985 | #4,052 | 10 |
| 1984 | #2,364 | 21 |
| 1983 | #2,408 | 20 |
| 1982 | #3,108 | 14 |
| 1981 | #3,601 | 11 |
| 1980 | #2,729 | 17 |
| 1979 | #4,068 | 9 |
| 1978 | #3,614 | 10 |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,095 | 12 |
| 1975 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,694 | 8 |
| 1972 | #3,152 | 10 |
| 1971 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1970 | #4,230 | 6 |
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| 1968 | #2,907 | 9 |
| 1967 | #2,470 | 11 |
| 1966 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1965 | #2,084 | 15 |
| 1964 | #2,854 | 9 |
| 1963 | #2,673 | 10 |
| 1962 | #3,041 | 8 |
| 1961 | #2,900 | 9 |
| 1960 | #2,871 | 9 |
| 1959 | #3,037 | 8 |
| 1958 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1957 | #2,822 | 9 |
| 1956 | #3,942 | 5 |
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| 1954 | #3,452 | 6 |
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| 1949 | #3,690 | 5 |
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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.
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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
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #3,690 (1949) | #3,690 |
| 1950s | 34 | #2,822 (1957) | #3,362 |
| 1960s | 86 | #2,084 (1965) | #2,815 |
| 1970s | 69 | #3,095 (1976) | #3,766 |
| 1980s | 156 | #2,035 (1988) | #3,294 |
| 1990s | 716 | #1,169 (1997) | #1,547 |
| 2000s | 1,405 | #930 (2002) | #1,164 |
| 2010s | 865 | #1,368 (2010) | #1,792 |
| 2020s | 278 | #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 2001
boys
#1,014
147 births · 1 in 13,217 boys
Top boys' names in 2001
More about 2001
boys
1,942,881 boys got a published name in 2001; 1 in 13,217 of them was named Luc, which outranked 91.8% of the 12,307 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).