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Luana

#1,827 in 2025Girls' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Luana has been given to 4,893 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #1,827 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1947, with 164 recorded.

Babies named Luana, 2025

1 in 30,100

Luana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Luana: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

coinages and English

What Luana means

Luana is a modern given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

American 18th/19th century coinage, a fanciful spelling of Louanna, from Lou + Anna.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Luana (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Luana is used in English, Hawaiian, Italian and Portuguese. Its origins include coinages and English.

Luana is a modern formation.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Luana is pronounced /luˈa.na/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,893 girls were recorded with the name Luana between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 164 in 1947; its best national rank was #651 in 1947.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,988 in 2020 to #1,827 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,373 in 2015 to #1,827 in 2025.

How common is Luana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 30,100
110 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 14,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,827
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
20,891 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Luana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 5002%

Put another way: gather 20,891 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Luana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Luanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Luana was born before 1965 — so the typical Luana is around 60 today.

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
16.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,475
People you could plausibly meet
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1940s — 16.0% of all recorded uses (785).

Is Luana 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
+79
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+161
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,546
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.29×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
67.1%
Peak was 1947 (164)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#651
1947

Spellings of Luana

Luana is not the most common spelling — Diana is, with 17.2% against Luana's 0.23%.

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 Luana is used

Across 2016–2025, Luana was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 2,564 girls, against 1 in 12,608 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).

239 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 2,564
  2. 2Florida1 in 6,250
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 7,692
  4. 4California1 in 11,111
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 12,500
  6. 6New York1 in 20,000
  7. 7Arizona1 in 25,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 25,000

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.

Luana around the world

Where Luana 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
    1996–2025
    #1,197
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2020–2022
    #760
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2009–2023
    #856
    in 2023
  • France
    1954–2025
    #663
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,469
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1954–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Notable people named Luana

People whose public names include Luana, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Luana in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Luana. Linked forms have their own page here.

LuaLunaLoanaLuaneLuannLouanaLuanna

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Luana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,827
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 161
Best rank ever
#651
1947
Peak year
1947
164 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,893
Count in 2025
110

Names similar to Luana

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

LuannLeanaIyanaIlanaLuannaJeanaJoanaIvanaTyanaKeanaElanaQianaCianaSanaGianaRianaTwanaKyanaRanaSavanaIleanaAyanaDelanaQuiana

Names with a curve like Luana

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Luana, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JoellaCharoletteGloryJaneyRoyceTobyIlonaCharletteCarolynnHollisRonnieRuthanne

Sibling names for Luana

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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