Luby — boys' name

What the Data Says About Luby

The Social Security Administration has registered 291 babies named Luby between 1884 and 1962, spanning 79 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Luby currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1962. The name reached its historical peak in 1925, when 14 babies received it in a single year. Luby is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 52 additional births since 1914.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Luby performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 87 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Luby shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 108 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Luby in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Luby in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 291 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.