Lux
#2,895 for girls in 2025, 58 births · #1,166 for boys in 2025, 177 births
Given to girls 52.0% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2014 · 125 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,653since 2001
Lux 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.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,895 | 58 | #1,166 | 177 |
| 2024 | #2,798 | 60 | #1,224 | 164 |
| 2023 | #2,156 | 88 | #1,153 | 181 |
| 2022 | #1,918 | 104 | #979 | 230 |
| 2021 | #1,851 | 108 | #1,098 | 191 |
| 2020 | #1,687 | 121 | #1,288 | 141 |
| 2019 | #1,949 | 100 | #1,534 | 110 |
| 2018 | #2,026 | 96 | #1,792 | 85 |
| 2017 | #2,097 | 92 | #3,586 | 30 |
| 2016 | #1,986 | 100 | #3,358 | 33 |
| 2015 | #1,984 | 100 | #3,431 | 32 |
| 2014 | #1,684 | 125 | #3,787 | 27 |
| 2013 | #1,880 | 107 | #3,864 | 26 |
| 2012 | #2,047 | 94 | #4,533 | 21 |
| 2011 | #2,395 | 77 | #4,983 | 18 |
| 2010 | #2,274 | 84 | #3,994 | 25 |
| 2009 | #5,709 | 24 | #6,095 | 14 |
| 2008 | #7,073 | 18 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #6,812 | 19 | #8,915 | 8 |
| 2006 | #8,237 | 14 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #6,245 | 19 | — | |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | — | |
| 2003 | #7,580 | 14 | — | |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 | — | |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | #10,556 | 5 |
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First appearance
2001
The first year at least five girls were named Lux! It came in at #10,102, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2004, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
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Momentum · girls
Falling
- 97 spots since 2024 (#2,798 → #2,895)
- 1,208 spots since 2020 (#1,687 → #2,895)
- 911 spots since 2015 (#1,984 → #2,895)
Rise & fade · girls
13 yrs to peak
- Debuted 2001
- Peaked 2014 at #1,684 (125 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 10 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 13,360
- Highest: 1 in 13,360 girls born in 2020 were named Lux (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 27,711 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,684 in 2014, was only 1 in 14,291 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 59.0% of all girls named Lux (975) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2019
- Mostly girls until 2018, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 139 | #5,709 (2009) | #8,071 |
| 2010s | 975 | #1,684 (2014) | #2,032 |
| 2020s | 539 | #1,687 (2020) | #2,218 |
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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