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Lui

#9,389 in 2025Boys' name

Loud; famous + battle, through Louis

Lui has been given to 164 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #9,389 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Lui, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lui: meaning, origin, and history

Loud; famous + battle, through Louis

English

What Lui means

Lui belongs to the name family reached through Lui → Louis. Its meaning is “loud; famous + battle”.

Origin, language, and formation

Lui is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include English.

Lui comes through English Louis.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Louis.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Lui is pronounced /ˈlu.i/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 164 boys were recorded with the name Lui between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2021; its best national rank was #5,464 in 2021.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,920 in 2015 to #9,389 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 Lui?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,389
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lui 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lui. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Luis were born

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

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
164
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 48.8% of all recorded uses (80).

Is Lui 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
+126
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,469
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
47.1%
Peak was 2021 (17)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,464
2021

Lui around the world

Where Lui 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
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1996–2011
    #730
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1966–2011
    #487
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lui by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,389
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,464
2021
Peak year
2021
17 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
164
Count in 2025
8

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Sibling names for Lui

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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