girls:
4.7k births since 1911
#2484 (57th percentile)
overall:
4.7k births since 1911
#3993 (48th percentile)
The name Luana is the #3,993 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,678 recorded births since 1911. This represents the 48.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 48.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,484 (56.5% percentile) for all time with 4,678 births since 1911.
Luana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1911 (first recorded for girls in 1911). Birth data for Luana is available in 112 out of the 113 years between 1911 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, Luana reached its peak popularity in 1947, achieving the 22.8% percentile (ranked #529) with 90 births per million. The name was most common in 1947, with 90 births per million (ranked 22.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2012, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Luana ranks #840 for girls (11.3% percentile) with 64 births per million, which is 71.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Luana".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Luana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.7% confident that Luana is pronounced as lue-AH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is lue-A-nuh, at 17.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like L UW0 AA1 N AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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