Meaning not yet researched.
Lu: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #442 in 1954.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #442 in 1954; #12,652 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lu in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,652 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1954, at #442.
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Lu: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #442 in 1954 · most girls in one year: 394 (1954).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Lu, making it the 12,652nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 918 places from #11,734 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 8 girls named Lu in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #442, reached in 1954. That year also had the most girls given the name: 394. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #1,442 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lu in 101 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 6 babies. In all, 4,081 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 2,021 babies named Lu.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 68 US girls were named Lu; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 11. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lou (38,198 babies since 1880), Lue (7,169 babies since 1880), Loy (4,983 babies since 1880) and Lua (1,089 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Lu in the open dataset we use.
Lu is listed as a nickname for Lou, Lucille, Lucinda, Luella.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,652 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,734 | — | — |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,358 | — | — |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,890 | 5 | #13,566 |
| 2021 | — | — | 6 | #11,600 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,937 | 6 | #11,446 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,038 | — | — |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,146 | — | — |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,202 | — | — |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,547 | — | — |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,196 | — | — |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,474 | — | — |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #8,460 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,774 | — | — |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,721 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,710 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,509 | — | — |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,134 | — | — |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,482 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,141 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,179 | — | — |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,357 | — | — |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,588 | — | — |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,404 | — | — |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,672 | — | — |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,324 | — | — |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,512 | — | — |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,066 | — | — |
| 1968 | 30 | #2,225 | — | — |
| 1967 | 40 | #1,868 | — | — |
| 1966 | 43 | #1,726 | — | — |
| 1965 | 36 | #1,937 | — | — |
| 1964 | 76 | #1,275 | — | — |
| 1963 | 85 | #1,187 | — | — |
| 1962 | 102 | #1,073 | — | — |
| 1961 | 146 | #893 | — | — |
| 1960 | 169 | #788 | — | — |
| 1959 | 178 | #763 | — | — |
| 1958 | 205 | #693 | — | — |
| 1957 | 228 | #652 | — | — |
| 1956 | 302 | #540 | — | — |
| 1955 | 276 | #549 | — | — |
| 1954 | 394 | #442 | — | — |
| 1953 | 319 | #484 | — | — |
| 1952 | 50 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 1951 | 28 | #1,866 | — | — |
| 1950 | 41 | #1,442 | — | — |
| 1949 | 48 | #1,330 | — | — |
| 1948 | 36 | #1,564 | — | — |
| 1947 | 43 | #1,428 | — | — |
| 1946 | 33 | #1,547 | — | — |
| 1945 | 44 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 1944 | 25 | #1,684 | — | — |
| 1943 | 33 | #1,456 | — | — |
| 1942 | 37 | #1,336 | — | — |
| 1941 | 40 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 1940 | 31 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 1939 | 29 | #1,391 | — | — |
| 1938 | 33 | #1,281 | — | — |
| 1937 | 34 | #1,244 | — | — |
| 1936 | 46 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 1935 | 41 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 1934 | 47 | #1,015 | — | — |
| 1933 | 28 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 1932 | 29 | #1,411 | — | — |
| 1931 | 23 | #1,619 | — | — |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,499 | — | — |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,515 | — | — |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 1927 | 28 | #1,573 | — | — |
| 1926 | 19 | #2,046 | — | — |
| 1925 | 25 | #1,723 | — | — |
| 1924 | 19 | #2,096 | — | — |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,998 | — | — |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,696 | — | — |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,575 | — | — |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,817 | — | — |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,332 | 6 | #3,995 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,606 | 6 | #3,991 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,383 | — | — |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,588 | — | — |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,640 | — | — |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,549 | — | — |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,047 | — | — |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,830 | — | — |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,734 | — | — |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,302 | — | — |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,114 | — | — |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,964 | — | — |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,110 | — | — |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,631 | — | — |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,381 | — | — |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,744 | — | — |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,455 | — | — |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,285 | — | — |
| 1889 | 8 | #998 | — | — |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 1887 | 7 | #997 | — | — |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,052 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).