girls:
543 births since 1921
#5173 (9th percentile)
boys:
3.4k births since 1912
#2137 (53rd percentile)
overall:
4k births since 1912
#4362 (44th percentile)
The name Lucky is the #4,362 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,969 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 43.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 43.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,137 (53.4% percentile) for all time with 3,426 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,173 (9.5% percentile) for all time with 543 births since 1921.
Lucky first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 1921 for girls). Birth data for Lucky is available in 108 out of the 112 years between 1912 and 2023 (108 years for boys and 60 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 Lucky has been given predominantly to boys, with 86.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 73.8% of babies named Lucky were boys.
For boys, Lucky reached its peak popularity in 1945, achieving the 8.0% percentile (ranked #493) with 35 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 37 births per million (ranked 7.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Lucky ranks #871 for boys (4.4% percentile) with 25 births per million, which is 65.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Lucky reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #838) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lucky is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #936 (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lucky".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Lucky. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Lucky is pronounced as LUH-kee, which has 2 syllables.
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