Lucky
#4,172 for girls in 2025, 34 births · #1,571 for boys in 2025, 108 births
Given to boys 85.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1945 · 48 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,624since 1912
Lucky over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,172 | 34 | #1,571 | 108 |
| 2024 | #5,148 | 25 | #1,856 | 87 |
| 2023 | #6,922 | 16 | #2,769 | 46 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 | #2,408 | 58 |
| 2021 | #7,630 | 14 | #2,079 | 70 |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 | #2,759 | 44 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 | #2,694 | 47 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 | #2,748 | 44 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | #2,755 | 44 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #2,335 | 56 |
| 2015 | — | #2,722 | 44 | |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 | #2,370 | 54 |
| 2013 | #7,748 | 15 | #3,265 | 33 |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 | #3,059 | 37 |
| 2011 | #8,614 | 13 | #2,798 | 42 |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 | #2,212 | 59 |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 | #2,401 | 53 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #2,291 | 57 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #2,139 | 63 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | #1,919 | 70 |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #1,869 | 68 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #1,880 | 65 |
| 2003 | #7,998 | 13 | #2,470 | 42 |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 | #1,998 | 55 |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | #2,346 | 42 |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #2,136 | 47 |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 | #2,023 | 47 |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #2,068 | 45 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #1,964 | 46 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 | #1,764 | 52 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 | #2,055 | 40 |
| 1994 | #6,672 | 13 | #1,927 | 43 |
| 1993 | #5,673 | 16 | #3,042 | 22 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | #2,909 | 23 |
| 1991 | #5,399 | 17 | #1,867 | 42 |
| 1990 | #5,549 | 16 | #2,628 | 25 |
| 1989 | — | #2,690 | 23 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #2,146 | 29 |
| 1987 | — | #3,072 | 16 | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #2,601 | 20 |
| 1985 | — | #2,293 | 23 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,232 | 23 | |
| 1983 | #6,212 | 10 | #2,577 | 18 |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 | #2,166 | 24 |
| 1981 | — | #1,899 | 29 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,003 | 27 | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #2,048 | 25 |
| 1978 | — | #2,799 | 15 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,823 | 28 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,873 | 26 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,593 | 32 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,549 | 15 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,653 | 28 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,603 | 29 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,745 | 26 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,058 | 19 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,130 | 16 | |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 | #1,506 | 27 |
| 1967 | — | #1,287 | 34 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,401 | 30 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,318 | 34 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,350 | 34 | |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | #1,426 | 30 |
| 1962 | — | #1,295 | 36 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,496 | 29 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,098 | 50 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,916 | 18 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,345 | 33 | |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | #1,547 | 26 |
| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 | #1,157 | 43 |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 | #1,273 | 35 |
| 1954 | — | #1,112 | 45 | |
| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 | #1,058 | 47 |
| 1952 | #4,123 | 8 | #1,195 | 38 |
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 | #1,332 | 31 |
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 | #1,139 | 39 |
| 1949 | #4,235 | 7 | #1,110 | 40 |
| 1948 | — | #1,231 | 34 | |
| 1947 | #4,007 | 8 | #1,014 | 50 |
| 1946 | #3,034 | 11 | #1,196 | 34 |
| 1945 | #3,676 | 7 | #927 | 48 |
| 1944 | #3,687 | 7 | #1,055 | 39 |
| 1943 | #2,558 | 13 | #1,140 | 36 |
| 1942 | #3,444 | 8 | #1,867 | 15 |
| 1941 | — | #1,411 | 23 | |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | #1,368 | 24 |
| 1939 | — | #1,958 | 13 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,521 | 20 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,197 | 11 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,854 | 7 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,951 | 7 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,266 | 11 | |
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | #2,638 | 9 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,770 | 17 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,693 | 19 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,589 | 10 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,611 | 22 | |
| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 | #1,468 | 26 |
| 1926 | #4,306 | 6 | #1,720 | 20 |
| 1925 | #4,028 | 7 | #2,089 | 15 |
| 1924 | — | #2,132 | 15 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,020 | 16 | |
| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 | #2,347 | 13 |
| 1921 | #5,099 | 5 | #2,059 | 16 |
| 1920 | — | #3,489 | 7 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,391 | 7 | |
| 1918 | — | — | ||
| 1917 | — | #3,217 | 7 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,389 | 11 | |
| 1915 | — | — | ||
| 1914 | — | #2,915 | 6 | |
| 1913 | — | — | ||
| 1912 | — | #2,269 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Lucky! It came in at #2,269, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1913, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Lucky
- 285 spots since 2024 (#1,856 → #1,571)
- 1,188 spots since 2020 (#2,759 → #1,571)
- 1,151 spots since 2015 (#2,722 → #1,571)
- Biggest jump: 128 spots in 1945 (#1,055 → #927)
- Biggest drop: 269 spots in 1946 (#927 → #1,196)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 1945 at #927 (48 births)
- Births halved by 1959, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1945
- Highest: 1 in 15,816 boys born in 2025 were named Lucky (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #927 in 1945, was only 1 in 28,039 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 15.5% of all boys named Lucky (562) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 37 | #2,269 (1912) | #2,836 |
| 1920s | 160 | #1,468 (1927) | #2,152 |
| 1930s | 114 | #1,521 (1938) | #2,205 |
| 1940s | 343 | #927 (1945) | #1,232 |
| 1950s | 355 | #1,058 (1953) | #1,307 |
| 1960s | 320 | #1,098 (1960) | #1,431 |
| 1970s | 243 | #1,593 (1975) | #1,974 |
| 1980s | 232 | #1,899 (1981) | #2,368 |
| 1990s | 385 | #1,764 (1996) | #2,225 |
| 2000s | 562 | #1,869 (2005) | #2,145 |
| 2010s | 460 | #2,212 (2010) | #2,696 |
| 2020s | 413 | #1,571 (2025) | #2,240 |
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.
Lucky in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 64,808 of them was named Lucky, which outranked 71.0% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,021Zamaya26
- #5,021Zeinab26
- #5,021Zuleyka26
- #5,148Lucky25
- #5,148Aamira25
- #5,148Adel25
- #5,148Adriella25
- #5,300Aaminah24
- #5,300Aaniyah24
- #5,300Adalida24
Tied with 151 names at #5,148; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 19,803 of them was named Lucky, which outranked 87.0% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,833Vivaan88
- #1,833Wilmer88
- #1,833Xavien88
- #1,856Lucky87
- #1,856Damoni87
- #1,856Nazai87
- #1,856Neel87
- #1,862Avion86
- #1,862Camari86
- #1,862Domingo86
Tied with 5 names at #1,856; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.