Lua
#2,090 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lua has been given to 1,089 babies in the U.S. since 1910. In 2025 it ranked #2,090 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 114 recorded.
Babies named Lua, 2025
1 in 36,800
Lua over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Lua?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 36,800
- 90 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 17,900
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,090
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 25,533 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lua sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 25,533 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lua. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Luas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lua was born before 2020 — so the typical Lua is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 56.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 96.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,084
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 56.1% of all recorded uses (611).
Is Lua 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
- −104
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −126
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,497
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 3.75×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 78.9%
- Peak was 2023 (114)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.8% average annual change
Where Lua is used
Across 2016–2025, Lua was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 15,309 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 11,111
- 2New York1 in 12,500
- 3Texas1 in 12,500
- 4Florida1 in 14,286
- 5Massachusetts1 in 14,286
- 6New Jersey1 in 25,000
- 7Arizona1 in 33,333
- 8Colorado1 in 50,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.
Lua around the world
Where Lua 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 & Wales2007–2025#1,512in 2025
- Scotland2022–2022#418in 2022
- Northern Ireland2019–2019#424in 2019
- Ireland2012–2025#718in 2025
- France1992–2025#1,390in 2025
- Canada2010–2024#1,709in 2024
- South Australia2010–2012#871in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Lua by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lua
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lua
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.