girls:
4k births since 1893
#2743 (52nd percentile)
boys:
1.5k births since 1900
#3117 (32nd percentile)
overall:
5.5k births since 1893
#3673 (53rd percentile)
The name Larue is the #3,673 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,503 recorded births since 1893. This represents the 52.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 52.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,743 (52.0% percentile) for all time with 3,963 births since 1893. For boys, it ranks #3,117 (32.0% percentile) for all time with 1,540 births since 1900.
Larue first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1893 (1893 for girls and 1900 for boys). Birth data for Larue is available in 119 out of the 131 years between 1893 and 2023 (99 years for boys and 93 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Larue has been given predominantly to girls, with 72.0% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Larue were girls.
For girls, Larue reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 22.9% percentile (ranked #469) with 119 births per million. The name was most common in 1920, with 119 births per million (ranked 22.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Larue ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 6.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Larue reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 6.0% percentile (ranked #503) with 34 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 52 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Larue".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Larue. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.1% confident that Larue is pronounced as luh-RUE, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ler-UE, at 16.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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