Meaning not yet researched.
Lux: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 177 in 2025. Its best rank was #981 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #981 in 2022; #1,168 in 2025. About 75% of babies named Lux in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,168 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #981.
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Lux: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 177 boys in 2025. Peak: #981 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 230 (2022).
In 2025, 177 US boys were named Lux, making it the 1,168th most common boys’ name of the year, up 59 places from #1,227 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 164 boys named Lux in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #981, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 230. For comparison, it was #3,482 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 58 US girls were named Lux, making it the 2,918th most common girls’ name of the year, down 108 places from #2,810 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 60 girls named Lux in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,689, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 125. For comparison, it was #1,991 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lux in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2001 with 14 babies. In all, 3,181 US babies have been given the name, 52% of them girls and 48% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,623 babies named Lux.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,342 US boys were named Lux; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 230. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,650 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lux ranked highest in North Dakota in 2025, at #246 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lukas (44,072 babies since 1880) and Luz (28,805 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Luxe are summarised on this page.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Latin. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Luxe (310).
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 Lux in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 5 | #246 | — |
| Iowa | 5 | #639 | — |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #674 | — |
| Kentucky | 6 | #680 | — |
| Missouri | 8 | #697 | — |
| Ohio | 12 | #736 | — |
| Louisiana | 6 | #736 | — |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #748 | — |
| Utah | 5 | #767 | — |
| Indiana | 7 | #817 | — |
| Georgia | 10 | #896 | — |
| Michigan | 7 | #965 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,131 | — |
| California | 17 | #1,182 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,185 | — |
| New York | 9 | #1,257 | — |
| Texas | 11 | #1,618 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | #2,918 | 177 | #1,168 |
| 2024 | 60 | #2,810 | 164 | #1,227 |
| 2023 | 88 | #2,166 | 181 | #1,154 |
| 2022 | 104 | #1,925 | 230 | #981 |
| 2021 | 108 | #1,854 | 191 | #1,099 |
| 2020 | 121 | #1,693 | 141 | #1,292 |
| 2019 | 100 | #1,957 | 110 | #1,539 |
| 2018 | 96 | #2,037 | 85 | #1,801 |
| 2017 | 92 | #2,105 | 30 | #3,636 |
| 2016 | 100 | #1,991 | 33 | #3,408 |
| 2015 | 100 | #1,991 | 32 | #3,482 |
| 2014 | 125 | #1,689 | 27 | #3,856 |
| 2013 | 107 | #1,885 | 26 | #3,921 |
| 2012 | 94 | #2,055 | 21 | #4,620 |
| 2011 | 77 | #2,406 | 18 | #5,111 |
| 2010 | 84 | #2,283 | 25 | #4,063 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,820 | 14 | #6,304 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,263 | 5 | #13,805 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,988 | 8 | #9,418 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,527 | 5 | #13,251 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,434 | — | — |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,295 | — | — |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,830 | — | — |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,915 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,639 | 5 | #11,650 |
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).