girls:
847 births since 1907
#4869 (15th percentile)
boys:
1.1k births since 1912
#3530 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1.9k births since 1907
#5851 (24th percentile)
The name Luverne is the #5,851 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,913 recorded births since 1907. This represents the 24.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,530 (23.0% percentile) for all time with 1,066 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #4,869 (14.8% percentile) for all time with 847 births since 1907.
Luverne first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1907 (1907 for girls and 1912 for boys). Birth data for Luverne is available in 50 out of the 53 years between 1907 and 1959 (44 years for girls and 43 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 Luverne has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (55.7% of all recorded births). In 1959, 0.0% of babies named Luverne were boys. Interestingly, until around 1923, the name was more popular for girls (55.8% girls from 1907 to 1922), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (62.9% boys from 1923 to 1959).
For boys, Luverne reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 10.8% percentile (ranked #494) with 56 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 56 births per million (ranked 10.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1956.
For girls, Luverne reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 8.1% percentile (ranked #542) with 44 births per million. The name was most common in 1918, with 44 births per million (ranked 8.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1959.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Luverne".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Luverne.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Luverne", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Luverne.
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Luverne. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.4% confident that Luverne is pronounced as lue-VERN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LUH-vern, at 13.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Luverne? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Luverne. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Luverne, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like L UW0 V ER1 N) 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.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker