Lue
Lue was last recorded in 2013, when 5 babies were given it; 7,169 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,830 Americans named Lue and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (26% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 66 and 83.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lue by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lue?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,708, in 1985; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
176 babies in 1919, the peak
Lue peaked in 1919, when 176 babies were given it (160 girls, #544 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 5 | #11,708 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,556 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,749 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,411 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,965 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,806 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,969 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,605 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,906 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,419 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 14 | #3,472 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,854 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 33 | #2,094 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,460 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 30 | #2,194 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 42 | #1,778 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 47 | #1,647 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 43 | #1,682 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 44 | #1,616 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 57 | #1,402 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 54 | #1,443 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 82 | #1,104 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 86 | #1,060 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 82 | #1,066 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 56 | #1,273 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 62 | #1,186 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 60 | #1,196 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 72 | #1,061 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 74 | #1,022 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 96 | #906 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 89 | #882 | 0.06 |
| 1945 | 92 | #783 | 0.07 |
| 1944 | 88 | #814 | 0.07 |
| 1943 | 86 | #841 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 116 | #693 | 0.09 |
| 1941 | 114 | #664 | 0.09 |
| 1940 | 113 | #657 | 0.10 |
| 1939 | 93 | #708 | 0.08 |
| 1938 | 105 | #671 | 0.10 |
| 1937 | 100 | #680 | 0.09 |
| 1936 | 111 | #630 | 0.11 |
| 1935 | 114 | #611 | 0.11 |
| 1934 | 130 | #563 | 0.12 |
| 1933 | 99 | #661 | 0.10 |
| 1932 | 116 | #614 | 0.11 |
| 1931 | 102 | #660 | 0.10 |
| 1930 | 133 | #599 | 0.12 |
| 1929 | 138 | #586 | 0.12 |
| 1928 | 133 | #612 | 0.12 |
| 1927 | 138 | #607 | 0.12 |
| 1926 | 125 | #644 | 0.11 |
| 1925 | 150 | #590 | 0.12 |
| 1924 | 154 | #600 | 0.12 |
| 1923 | 156 | #578 | 0.13 |
| 1922 | 148 | #592 | 0.12 |
| 1921 | 118 | #681 | 0.10 |
| 1920 | 130 | #631 | 0.11 |
| 1919 | 160 | #544 | 0.14 |
| 1918 | 118 | #649 | 0.10 |
| 1917 | 127 | #608 | 0.12 |
| 1916 | 104 | #673 | 0.10 |
| 1915 | 104 | #650 | 0.11 |
| 1914 | 81 | #646 | 0.11 |
| 1913 | 86 | #552 | 0.14 |
| 1912 | 77 | #557 | 0.14 |
| 1911 | 80 | #460 | 0.19 |
| 1910 | 70 | #488 | 0.18 |
| 1909 | 53 | #517 | 0.15 |
| 1908 | 48 | #532 | 0.14 |
| 1907 | 61 | #459 | 0.19 |
| 1906 | 45 | #514 | 0.15 |
| 1905 | 48 | #489 | 0.16 |
| 1904 | 37 | #551 | 0.13 |
| 1903 | 50 | #455 | 0.19 |
| 1902 | 57 | #410 | 0.22 |
| 1901 | 35 | #517 | 0.15 |
| 1900 | 54 | #461 | 0.18 |
| 1899 | 33 | #520 | 0.14 |
| 1898 | 34 | #551 | 0.13 |
| 1897 | 35 | #494 | 0.15 |
| 1896 | 32 | #531 | 0.13 |
| 1895 | 41 | #447 | 0.18 |
| 1894 | 29 | #540 | 0.13 |
| 1893 | 36 | #448 | 0.17 |
| 1892 | 34 | #468 | 0.16 |
| 1891 | 32 | #452 | 0.17 |
| 1890 | 30 | #481 | 0.16 |
| 1889 | 33 | #425 | 0.19 |
| 1888 | 30 | #453 | 0.17 |
| 1887 | 26 | #441 | 0.18 |
| 1886 | 46 | #310 | 0.32 |
| 1885 | 30 | #377 | 0.23 |
| 1884 | 31 | #362 | 0.24 |
| 1883 | 20 | #429 | 0.18 |
| 1882 | 27 | #346 | 0.25 |
| 1881 | 21 | #367 | 0.23 |
| 1880 | 19 | #381 | 0.21 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lue a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,169 Americans recorded as Lue, 90% are girls and 10% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lue: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lue, and how old are they?
1,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 26% of the 7,169 Americans ever recorded as Lue. The median Lue alive today is 75 years old; half are between 66 and 83.
The 2020 Census counted 2,088 people named Lue (1,193 women and girls, 895 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,399 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 586 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 912 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 129 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 153 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 26 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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 Lue born?
The states with the most babies named Lue are Mississippi, Alabama and Texas, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi and Alabama are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 944 | not ranked | 7.6× |
| Alabama | 616 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| Texas | 464 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| South Carolina | 437 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| Georgia | 343 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Tennessee | 303 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Louisiana | 264 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Arkansas | 262 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| North Carolina | 197 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Kentucky | 83 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Lue is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lue is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 7.6 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 Lue 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 110,822 babies since 1880, Lue is the third most given (6.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 247 babies recorded by SSA was a Lue (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 Lue
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 Lue and names like it
- Compare Lue and LulaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sLue peaked in 1919.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lue since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Lue.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lue alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.