girls:
899 births since 1910
#4817 (16th percentile)
overall:
899 births since 1910
#6840 (12th percentile)
The name Lua is the #6,840 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 899 recorded births since 1910. This represents the 11.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,817 (15.7% percentile) for all time with 899 births since 1910.
Lua first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (first recorded for girls in 1910). Birth data for Lua is available in 27 out of the 114 years between 1910 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Lua reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 11.5% percentile (ranked #838) with 65 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 65 births per million (ranked 11.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2004, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lua is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #838 (11.5% percentile) with 65 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lua".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Lua is pronounced as LUE-uh, which has 2 syllables.
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