Luma — #15420 US girls' name
216 babies named Luma in U.S. Social Security records since 1918, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 13% of names given to girls today.
39% of everyone ever named Luma was born in this single decade.
19 babies were named Luma in 2023 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Luma
The Social Security Administration has registered 216 babies named Luma between 1918 and 2024, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Luma currently holds the #15420 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 19 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Luma performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 84 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Luma shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Luma in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Luma 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 216 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.
Luma at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Luma popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1918
- Peak year (2023)
- 19
- Annual births at peak — across 107 years of records
Currently ranks #15420 among girls.
216 total births across 107 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2023 with 19 births in a single year.
Luma by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 84 births that decade — 39% of Luma's all-time total
Luma decade highlights
- Peak decade 84 births
- Runner-up 65 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Luma's strongest decade
84 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 39% of all-time use.
Luma by state
Where Luma concentrates geographically — total births since 1918
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 10 | 4.6% |
10 of 216 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 4.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 4.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1918–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.