girls:
429 births since 2011
#5287 (7th percentile)
boys:
43 births since 2014
#4543 (1st percentile)
overall:
472 births since 2011
#7267 (6th percentile)
The name Lumen is the #7,267 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 472 recorded births since 2011. This represents the 6.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,287 (7.5% percentile) for all time with 429 births since 2011. For boys, it ranks #4,543 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 43 births since 2014.
Lumen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2011 (2011 for girls and 2014 for boys).
The name Lumen has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 90.9% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 74.4% of babies named Lumen were girls.
For girls, Lumen reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 4.0% percentile (ranked #922) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 22 births per million (ranked 4.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Lumen ranks #920 for girls (2.9% percentile) with 18 births per million, which is 83.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lumen reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #905) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for boys has remained relatively stable. Currently, Lumen is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #905 (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lumen".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Lumen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.5% confident that Lumen is pronounced as LUE-muhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LUE-mehn, at 12.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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