Meaning not yet researched.
Lua: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 90 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,786 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,786 in 2023; #2,090 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lua in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,090 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,786.
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Lua: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 90 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,786 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 114 (2023).
In 2025, 90 US girls were named Lua, making it the 2,090th most common girls’ name of the year, down 104 places from #1,986 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 99 girls named Lua in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,786, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 114. For comparison, it was #5,589 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lua in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 5 babies. In all, 1,089 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 611 babies named Lua.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 852 US girls were named Lua; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 114. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,859 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lua ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #900 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Luella (32,621 babies since 1880), Luana (4,893 babies since 1880), Lou (38,198 babies since 1880) and Lue (7,169 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 Lua in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 8 | #900 | — |
| Florida | 12 | #1,217 | — |
| Texas | 15 | #1,586 | — |
| California | 11 | #1,901 | #3,247 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 90 | #2,090 | — | — |
| 2024 | 99 | #1,986 | — | — |
| 2023 | 114 | #1,786 | — | — |
| 2022 | 109 | #1,862 | — | — |
| 2021 | 102 | #1,936 | — | — |
| 2020 | 97 | #1,964 | — | — |
| 2019 | 85 | #2,185 | — | — |
| 2018 | 93 | #2,074 | — | — |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,671 | — | — |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,097 | — | — |
| 2015 | 24 | #5,589 | — | — |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,323 | — | — |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,160 | — | — |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,816 | — | — |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,059 | — | — |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,797 | — | — |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,382 | — | — |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,306 | — | — |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,251 | — | — |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,109 | — | — |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,878 | — | — |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,291 | — | — |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,608 | — | — |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,237 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,928 | — | — |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,794 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,220 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,584 | — | — |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,625 | — | — |
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).