Luann
Luann was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,650 among girls’ names; 15,512 Americans have been recorded with it since 1921 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,400 Americans named Luann and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 63 and 72.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Luann by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Luann mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Luann is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Luann?
#12,650 among girls’ names, 2025
Luann rose from #13,891 in 2015 to #12,650 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 4.4 per million.
1,644 babies in 1954, the peak
Luann peaked in 1954, when 1,644 babies were given it (1,638 girls, #192 among girls’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,650 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,915 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,826 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,885 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,864 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,777 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,176 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,411 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,688 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,805 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #13,891 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,771 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,702 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,762 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,437 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,978 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,154 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,365 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,739 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,327 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,613 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,611 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,429 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,104 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,567 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,918 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,702 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,416 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,097 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,789 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,131 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,927 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,577 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,388 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,730 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,792 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,440 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,578 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,398 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,710 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,676 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,383 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,630 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,220 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,197 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,417 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,210 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 42 | #2,218 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 59 | #1,748 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 48 | #1,897 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 56 | #1,699 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 65 | #1,509 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 84 | #1,245 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 88 | #1,216 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 127 | #989 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 168 | #822 | 0.10 |
| 1969 | 190 | #735 | 0.11 |
| 1968 | 207 | #675 | 0.13 |
| 1967 | 203 | #680 | 0.12 |
| 1966 | 258 | #588 | 0.15 |
| 1965 | 345 | #511 | 0.20 |
| 1964 | 433 | #466 | 0.23 |
| 1963 | 458 | #453 | 0.24 |
| 1962 | 562 | #411 | 0.29 |
| 1961 | 729 | #354 | 0.36 |
| 1960 | 731 | #360 | 0.36 |
| 1959 | 830 | #326 | 0.41 |
| 1958 | 908 | #297 | 0.45 |
| 1957 | 994 | #279 | 0.49 |
| 1956 | 1,201 | #239 | 0.60 |
| 1955 | 1,356 | #219 | 0.69 |
| 1954 | 1,638 | #192 | 0.84 |
| 1953 | 1,197 | #229 | 0.64 |
| 1952 | 202 | #618 | 0.11 |
| 1951 | 155 | #703 | 0.09 |
| 1950 | 140 | #722 | 0.08 |
| 1949 | 120 | #787 | 0.07 |
| 1948 | 93 | #904 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 116 | #810 | 0.07 |
| 1946 | 102 | #821 | 0.06 |
| 1945 | 66 | #948 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 79 | #861 | 0.06 |
| 1943 | 72 | #920 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 74 | #914 | 0.05 |
| 1941 | 79 | #813 | 0.07 |
| 1940 | 66 | #884 | 0.06 |
| 1939 | 70 | #833 | 0.06 |
| 1938 | 55 | #961 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 61 | #889 | 0.06 |
| 1936 | 62 | #865 | 0.06 |
| 1935 | 62 | #879 | 0.06 |
| 1934 | 61 | #873 | 0.06 |
| 1933 | 26 | #1,457 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 30 | #1,367 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,991 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,255 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,383 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,706 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,275 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,545 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,572 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Luann a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Luann has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 101 years of records.
Girls and boys named Luann: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Luann, and how old are they?
12,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 80% of the 15,512 Americans ever recorded as Luann. The median Luann alive today is 68 years old; half are between 63 and 72.
The 2020 Census counted 14,310 people named Luann (14,286 women and girls, 24 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,247 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 338 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9,620 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,830 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 290 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 170 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 127 |
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 Luann born?
The states with the most babies named Luann are Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Wisconsin, with 29% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota and Wisconsin are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 1,439 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Minnesota | 1,256 | not ranked | 3.8× |
| Wisconsin | 1,104 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| New York | 1,081 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 995 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 960 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Iowa | 868 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| Illinois | 824 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 544 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 493 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Luann is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Luann is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1921 it was given 3.8 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 Luann 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 15,658 babies since 1880, Luann is the most given (99% of them).
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 Luann
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 Luann and names like it
- Compare Luann and LunBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sLuann peaked in 1954.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Luann since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Luann: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Luann.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Luann alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.