Lugene

Where Lugene comes from

Lugene hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1900
    First appearance
    #1,310 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1909
    Peak, #1,277
    6 babies named Lugene — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1910
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1964
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Lugene hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.