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Luay

#6,313 in 2025Boys' name

Little wild ox

Luay has been given to 168 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #6,313 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Luay, 2025

1 in 237,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Luay: meaning, origin, and history

Little wild ox

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Luay means

Luay means “little wild ox”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 168 boys were recorded with the name Luay between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2016; its best national rank was #6,213 in 2016.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,443 in 2015 to #6,313 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 Luay?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 122,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,313
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Luay 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Luay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Luays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Luay was born before 2015 — so the typical Luay is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
168
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.7% of all recorded uses (70).

Is Luay 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
+1,781
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,130
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.56×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2016 (14)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,213
2016

Spellings of Luay

Luay is not the most common spelling — Juan is, with 14.6% against Luay's <0.01%.

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.

Luay around the world

Where Luay 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
    2003–2025
    #1,466
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2025
    #1,909
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Luay by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,313
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#6,213
2016
Peak year
2016
14 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
168
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Luay

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

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Sibling names for Luay

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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