Lua
#2,076 for girls in 2025, 90 births
- Peak · girls
- 2023 · 114 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,089since 1910
Lua over time
Rank among girls' names. Lua has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,076 | 90 |
| 2024 | #1,980 | 99 |
| 2023 | #1,780 | 114 |
| 2022 | #1,856 | 109 |
| 2021 | #1,926 | 102 |
| 2020 | #1,959 | 97 |
| 2019 | #2,170 | 85 |
| 2018 | #2,071 | 93 |
| 2017 | #3,627 | 42 |
| 2016 | #5,985 | 21 |
| 2015 | #5,458 | 24 |
| 2014 | #4,269 | 34 |
| 2013 | #6,017 | 21 |
| 2012 | #5,710 | 23 |
| 2011 | #5,935 | 22 |
| 2010 | #6,641 | 19 |
| 2009 | #9,975 | 11 |
| 2008 | #8,965 | 13 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 |
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| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 |
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| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 |
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| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 |
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| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 |
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| 1910 | #2,398 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Lua! It came in at #2,398, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1910–1977, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Lua is popular in 1910
No state had 5 or more girls named Lua in 1910, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Lua
- 96 spots since 2024 (#1,980 → #2,076)
- 117 spots since 2020 (#1,959 → #2,076)
- 3,382 spots since 2015 (#5,458 → #2,076)
- Debuted 1910
- Peaked 2023 at #1,780 (114 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,075 girls born in 2023 were named Lua (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,859 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 56.1% of all girls named Lua (611) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #2,398 (1910) | #2,398 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 11 | #8,562 (1978) | #8,669 |
| 1980s | 12 | #9,095 (1980) | #9,166 |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 66 | #8,965 (2008) | #12,107 |
| 2010s | 384 | #2,071 (2018) | #4,788 |
| 2020s | 611 | #1,780 (2023) | #1,930 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Lua in 1910
Top girls' names in 1910
More about 1910
girls
396,503 girls got a published name in 1910; 1 in 79,301 of them was named Lua, which outranked 14.1% of the 2,790 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 392 names at #2,398; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.