Lumen
- #6,325 for girls in 2025, 18 births
- #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
- Given to girls 88.2% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2015 · 43 births
- Debut · girls
- 14 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 465since 2011
Lumen over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,325 | 18 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #7,251 | 15 | #6,469 | 13 |
| 2023 | #4,276 | 33 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | #4,378 | 32 | — | |
| 2021 | #4,014 | 36 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,078 | 34 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2019 | #4,437 | 31 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,918 | 37 | #7,617 | 10 |
| 2017 | #3,848 | 39 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #3,923 | 38 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,595 | 43 | — | |
| 2014 | #4,103 | 36 | #9,642 | 7 |
| 2013 | #4,543 | 31 | — | |
| 2012 | #4,957 | 28 | — | |
| 2011 | #8,196 | 14 | — | |
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First appearance
2011
The first year at least five girls were named Lumen! It came in at #8,196, and was given to 14 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2011, when fewer than 15 girls a year got the name.
Where Lumen is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Lumen in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Falling
- 926 spots since 2024 (#7,251 → #6,325)
- 2,247 spots since 2020 (#4,078 → #6,325)
- 2,730 spots since 2015 (#3,595 → #6,325)
Rise & fade · girls
4 yrs to peak
- Debuted 2011
- Peaked 2015 at #3,595 (43 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 9 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 41,514
- Highest: 1 in 41,514 girls born in 2015 were named Lumen (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,293 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 63.9% of all girls named Lumen (297) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 297 | #3,595 (2015) | #4,613 |
| 2020s | 168 | #4,014 (2021) | #5,054 |
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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