girls:
190 births since 1885
#5526 (3rd percentile)
overall:
190 births since 1885
#7549 (2nd percentile)
The name Lumina is the #7,549 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 190 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 2.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,526 (3.3% percentile) for all time with 190 births since 1885.
Lumina first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (first recorded for girls in 1885). Birth data for Lumina is available in 15 out of the 139 years between 1885 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, Lumina reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #921) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1885, with 35 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lumina ranks #921 for girls (2.7% percentile) with 18 births per million, which is 50.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lumina".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Lumina. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.2% confident that Lumina is pronounced as LUE-mih-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LUE-mee-nuh, at 25.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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