Lua
Lua was given to 90 girls in 2025, #2,090 among girls’ names; 1,089 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,080 Americans named Lua and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 9.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lua by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lua?
#2,090 among girls’ names, 2025
Lua rose from #5,587 in 2015 to #2,090 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 13.4 to 56.0 per million.
114 babies in 2023, the peak
Lua peaked in 2023, when 114 girls were given it, #1,786 among girls’ names. The 90 births of 2025 are 79% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 90 | #2,090 | 56.0 |
| 2024 | 99 | #1,986 | 61.1 |
| 2023 | 114 | #1,786 | 71.0 |
| 2022 | 109 | #1,862 | 66.5 |
| 2021 | 102 | #1,936 | 62.2 |
| 2020 | 97 | #1,964 | 60.0 |
| 2019 | 85 | #2,185 | 50.6 |
| 2018 | 93 | #2,074 | 54.7 |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,670 | 24.3 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,095 | 11.9 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,587 | 13.4 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,321 | 19.0 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,157 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,813 | 13.1 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,056 | 12.5 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,794 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,378 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,302 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,246 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,104 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,871 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,285 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,601 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,229 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,925 | 3.5 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,792 | 3.6 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,218 | 3.9 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,582 | 3.4 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,625 | 12.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lua a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lua has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lua: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lua, and how old are they?
1,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,089 Americans ever recorded as Lua. The median Lua alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 9.
The 2020 Census counted 931 people named Lua (836 women and girls, 95 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 494 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Lua rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 16 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 129 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 926 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Lua born?
The states with the most babies named Lua are Texas, Florida and California, with 83% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 15 | #1,586 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,217 | 0.9× |
| California | 11 | #1,901 | 1.4× |
| New Jersey | 8 | #900 | 0.4× |
Where Lua is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lua is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lua with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 111,333 babies since 1880, Lua is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 90 of their 254 babies (35%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lua
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lua and names like it
- Compare Lua and LulaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLua peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lua since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Lua.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lua alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.