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
- 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
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| 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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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.
Where Lux is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Minnesota#554 · 1 in 2,406
- Utah#579 · 1 in 2,685
- South Carolina#763 · 1 in 3,461
- Indiana#1,014 · 1 in 5,603
- North Carolina#1,230 · 1 in 7,272
Best ever in a state: #554 in Minnesota, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #554 | 9 | 1 in 2,406 |
| Utah | #579 | 6 | 1 in 2,685 |
| South Carolina | #763 | 5 | 1 in 3,461 |
| Indiana | #1,014 | 5 | 1 in 5,603 |
| North Carolina | #1,230 | 6 | 1 in 7,272 |
| Ohio | #1,443 | 5 | 1 in 9,580 |
| Texas | #1,541 | 14 | 1 in 10,924 |
| California | #2,036 | 10 | 1 in 17,421 |
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See more about Lux
- 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)
- Debuted 2001
- Peaked 2014 at #1,684 (125 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 59.0% of all girls named Lux (975) were born in this decade
- 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.
Lux in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 13,360 of them was named Lux, which outranked 90.4% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,678Leticia122
- #1,678Nicolette122
- #1,678Sterling122
- #1,687Lux121
- #1,687Adah121
- #1,687Delanie121
- #1,687Esmae121
- #1,698Aleyna120
- #1,698Annaliese120
- #1,698Jupiter120
Tied with 10 names at #1,687; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 12,242 of them was named Lux, which outranked 90.8% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,280Matheo143
- #1,286Kennedy142
- #1,286Rodolfo142
- #1,288Lux141
- #1,288Bilal141
- #1,288Emmet141
- #1,288Kamron141
- #1,295Amiri140
- #1,295Derick140
- #1,297Daylen139
Tied with 6 names at #1,288; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.