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Lucky

#1,580 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Lucky has been given to 4,226 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #1,580 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 108 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 86% boys, 14% girls all-time.

Babies named Lucky, 2025

1 in 30,700

Lucky over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Lucky over time

In 2025, Lucky went to 24% girls and 76% boys.

19122025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Lucky: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lucky means

Lucky is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Lucky is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,624 boys were recorded with the name Lucky between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 108 in 2025; its best national rank was #935 in 1945.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,785 in 2020 to #1,580 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,748 in 2015 to #1,580 in 2025.

In the United States, 602 girls were recorded with the name Lucky between 1921 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 34 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,644 in 1943.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,421 in 2020 to #4,232 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lucky?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 30,700
108 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 15,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,580
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
21,278 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lucky 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 21,278 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lucky. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Luckys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lucky was born before 1990 — so the typical Lucky is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
15.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,970
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 15.5% of all recorded uses (562).

Is Lucky 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
+277
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,205
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,168
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.45×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (108)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#935
1945

Spellings of Lucky

Lucky is not the most common spelling — Lucas is, with 30.8% against Lucky's 0.34%.

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 Lucky is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Lucky was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 7,143 boys, against 1 in 30,816 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

114 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 7,143
  2. 2California1 in 16,667
  3. 3Texas1 in 33,333
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

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.

Where Lucky is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Lucky was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 410,584 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Lucky has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lucky around the world

Where Lucky 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
    2001–2025
    #2,014
    in 2025
  • France
    1963–2023
    #5,421
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1959–2009
    #708
    in 2009

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.

Notable people named Lucky

People whose public names include Lucky, 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.

Lucky in other languages

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

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

Lucky by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,580
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,205
Best rank ever
#935
1945
Peak year
2025
108 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,624
Count in 2025
108

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,232
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,189
Best rank ever
#2,644
1943
Peak year
2025
34 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
602
Count in 2025
34

Names similar to Lucky

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

LucioLucusLuccaLucMickyLucahLucienLuciusLuciousJackyNickyLucanLucianLucyLuccasLucianoRockyLuciferLuceroBuckyDickyLucaLuccianoLucille

Names with a curve like Lucky

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

JonnyAugustinSammuelBurkeMannyLinoNilesLexCreightonGeronimoNinoCiro

Sibling names for Lucky

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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