Lue — unisex name

What the Data Says About Lue

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,474 babies named Lue between 1880 and 1985, spanning 106 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lue currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1985. The name reached its historical peak in 1919, when 160 babies received it in a single year. Lue is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 695 additional births since 1881.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lue performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 1,390 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Lue shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 939 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Lue in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lue 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 6,474 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.