Luba
- #14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · girls
- 1952 · 23 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 583since 1912
Luba over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Luba has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | — | |
| 2018 | — | |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 |
| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 |
| 2014 | — | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 |
| 2012 | — | |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | — | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 |
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| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 |
| 1973 | — | |
| 1972 | — | |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 |
| 1970 | — | |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 |
| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 |
| 1964 | #4,636 | 9 |
| 1963 | #4,539 | 9 |
| 1962 | #4,011 | 11 |
| 1961 | #4,009 | 11 |
| 1960 | #4,184 | 10 |
| 1959 | #3,436 | 13 |
| 1958 | #3,232 | 14 |
| 1957 | #2,727 | 18 |
| 1956 | #2,622 | 19 |
| 1955 | #2,839 | 16 |
| 1954 | #2,695 | 17 |
| 1953 | #2,363 | 20 |
| 1952 | #2,126 | 23 |
| 1951 | #2,694 | 15 |
| 1950 | #2,253 | 19 |
| 1949 | — | |
| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 |
| 1947 | — | |
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| 1945 | — | |
| 1944 | #4,054 | 6 |
| 1943 | — | |
| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | #3,503 | 7 |
| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 |
| 1938 | #3,450 | 7 |
| 1937 | #3,434 | 7 |
| 1936 | #2,857 | 9 |
| 1935 | #3,742 | 6 |
| 1934 | #4,286 | 5 |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 |
| 1932 | #3,274 | 8 |
| 1931 | #3,848 | 6 |
| 1930 | #4,047 | 6 |
| 1929 | #2,587 | 12 |
| 1928 | #2,768 | 11 |
| 1927 | #3,053 | 10 |
| 1926 | #3,269 | 9 |
| 1925 | #3,664 | 8 |
| 1924 | #4,434 | 6 |
| 1923 | #2,917 | 11 |
| 1922 | #2,612 | 13 |
| 1921 | #2,941 | 11 |
| 1920 | #3,598 | 8 |
| 1919 | #2,156 | 16 |
| 1918 | #2,209 | 16 |
| 1917 | #3,713 | 7 |
| 1916 | — | |
| 1915 | #3,134 | 8 |
| 1914 | #2,265 | 10 |
| 1913 | #2,540 | 7 |
| 1912 | #2,979 | 5 |
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First appearance
1912
The first year at least five girls were named Luba! It came in at #2,979, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1916, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Luba is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Luba in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Luba
Momentum · girls
Brand new
- 351 spots since 2024 (#15,293 → #14,942)
- 3,107 spots since 2015 (#11,835 → #14,942)
Rise & fade · girls
40 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 1952 at #2,126 (23 births)
- Births halved by 1960, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 70,632
- Highest: 1 in 70,632 girls born in 1919 were named Luba (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,126 in 1952, was only 1 in 80,623 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1950s
- 29.8% of all girls named Luba (174) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 69 | #2,156 (1919) | #2,714 |
| 1920s | 99 | #2,587 (1929) | #3,184 |
| 1930s | 64 | #2,857 (1936) | #3,741 |
| 1940s | 23 | #3,503 (1940) | #4,356 |
| 1950s | 174 | #2,126 (1952) | #2,699 |
| 1960s | 81 | #4,009 (1961) | #5,186 |
| 1970s | 15 | #8,324 (1971) | #8,794 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 12 | #13,832 (2008) | #15,563 |
| 2010s | 23 | #9,943 (2017) | #12,775 |
| 2020s | 23 | #11,146 (2021) | #14,144 |
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.
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