girls:
1.5k births since 2001
#4214 (26th percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 2001
#3422 (25th percentile)
overall:
2.7k births since 2001
#5170 (33rd percentile)
The name Lux is the #5,170 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,717 recorded births since 2001. This represents the 33.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 33.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,214 (26.3% percentile) for all time with 1,533 births since 2001. For boys, it ranks #3,422 (25.3% percentile) for all time with 1,184 births since 2001.
Lux first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2001 .
The name Lux has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (56.4% of all recorded births). In 2023, 32.5% of babies named Lux were girls. Interestingly, until around 2021, the name was more popular for girls (67.9% girls from 2001 to 2020), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (66.7% boys from 2021 to 2023).
For girls, Lux reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 12.4% percentile (ranked #824) with 68 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 68 births per million (ranked 12.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lux ranks #865 for girls (8.7% percentile) with 50 births per million, which is 72.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lux reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 24.1% percentile (ranked #702) with 122 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 122 births per million (ranked 24.1% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Lux ranks #735 for boys (19.3% percentile) with 99 births per million, which is 81.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lux".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Lux.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Lux", 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 Lux.
Our model found one way to pronounce the name Lux. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Lux is pronounced as luhks, which has 1 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 Lux? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Lux. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Lux, 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 AH1 K S) 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