Lux

Where Lux comes from

Lux hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it 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.

Along the way
  1. 1894
    Lux Guyer born
    Swiss architect
  2. 1992
    Lux Pascal born
    Chilean-American actress
  3. 2001
    First appearance
    #10,102 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2014
    Peak, #1,684
    125 babies named Lux — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2019
    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.
  6. 2024
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,798.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Lux Pascal · Chilean-American actress, born 1992
  • Lux Guyer · Swiss architect, 1894–1955

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.