girls:
15.5k births since 1921
#1224 (79th percentile)
boys:
6 births since 1954
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
15.5k births since 1921
#2097 (73rd percentile)
The name Luann is the #2,097 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,495 recorded births since 1921. This represents the 72.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 72.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,224 (78.6% percentile) for all time with 15,489 births since 1921. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1954.
Luann first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1921 (1921 for girls and 1954 for boys). Birth data for Luann is available in 99 out of the 103 years between 1921 and 2023 (99 years for girls and 1 years for boys). 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 Luann has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Luann reached its peak popularity in 1954, achieving the 73.8% percentile (ranked #190) with 823 births per million. The name was most common in 1954, with 823 births per million (ranked 73.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Luann ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 0.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Luann reached its peak popularity in 1954, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #615) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1954, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1954.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Luann".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Luann. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 39.5% confident that Luann is pronounced as lue-AN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LUE-an, at 34.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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