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Louay

#4,802 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Luay

Louay has been given to 129 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #4,802 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Louay, 2025

1 in 158,000

Louay over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Louay: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Luay

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Louay means

Louay is a alternate transcription of Luay.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Louay → Luay. The family’s meaning is “little wild ox”, recorded in the naming reference for Luay.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Luay.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 129 boys were recorded with the name Louay between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 21 in 2025; its best national rank was #4,802 in 2025.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,554 in 2015 to #4,802 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Louay?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 81,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,802
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Louay sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Louay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Louays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Louay was born before 2019 — so the typical Louay is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
45.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
129
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 45.0% of all recorded uses (58).

Is Louay rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+3,290
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,752
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.62×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (21)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,802
2025

Spellings of Louay

Louay is not the most common spelling — Louis is, with 47.7% against Louay's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Louay is used

Across 1910–2025, Louay was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Louay has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Louay around the world

Where Louay ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • France
    2002–2025
    #469
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2002–2002
    #606
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Louay by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,802
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#4,802
2025
Peak year
2025
21 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
129
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Louay

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Louay

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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