Luane
Luane was last recorded in 1964, when 9 babies were given it; 241 Americans have been recorded with it between 1928 and 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Luane by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Luane?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #4,826, in 1964; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1953, the peak
Luane peaked in 1953, when 15 girls were given it, #2,880 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 9 | #4,826 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,158 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,155 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,410 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,604 | 6.4 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,477 | 6.5 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,412 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,599 | 6.0 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,168 | 7.2 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,253 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 15 | #2,880 | 8.0 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,311 | 6.5 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,879 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,773 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,489 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,442 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,202 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,973 | 7.6 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,870 | 5.4 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,960 | 5.2 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,763 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,639 | 4.6 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,656 | 10.3 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,610 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,022 | 6.0 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,131 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Luane a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Luane has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Luane: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Luane, and how old are they?
An estimated 165 Americans named Luane and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (68% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 66 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 298 people named Luane (279 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 187 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Luane?
Luane is a less common spelling of Luanne: SSA has recorded 241 Luane and 8,617 Luanne since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 104,066 babies since 1880, Luane is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 6,250 babies recorded by SSA was a Luane (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Luane
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 Luane and names like it
- Compare Luane and LuanneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sLuane peaked in 1953.
- The top names of 1953The year the most babies were named Luane.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Luane alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.