Luverne
Luverne was last recorded in 1959, when 6 babies were given it; 1,914 Americans have been recorded with it between 1907 and 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Luverne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Luverne?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #3,784, in 1956; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
100 babies in 1924, the peak
Luverne peaked in 1924, when 100 babies were given it (65 boys, #854 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 6 | #5,959 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,800 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 6 | #3,784 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 6 | #3,733 | |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,414 | 9 | #2,833 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,746 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,640 | 5 | #4,048 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,060 | 11 | #2,386 |
| 1949 | under 5 | 10 | #2,544 | |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,077 | 10 | #2,552 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | under 5 | 8 | #3,009 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 10 | #2,492 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 10 | #2,334 | |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,268 | 12 | #2,146 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,078 | 16 | #1,879 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,747 | 13 | #2,107 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,810 | 20 | #1,566 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,151 | 14 | #1,951 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,637 | 15 | #1,842 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,085 | 17 | #1,723 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,858 | 29 | #1,255 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,462 | 20 | #1,527 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,259 | 23 | #1,443 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,964 | 27 | #1,308 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,488 | 24 | #1,390 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,962 | 30 | #1,248 |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,718 | 41 | #1,055 |
| 1930 | 26 | #1,554 | 35 | #1,208 |
| 1929 | 19 | #1,924 | 44 | #1,038 |
| 1928 | 35 | #1,300 | 27 | #1,435 |
| 1927 | 29 | #1,541 | 47 | #1,027 |
| 1926 | 30 | #1,499 | 43 | #1,078 |
| 1925 | 36 | #1,333 | 48 | #993 |
| 1924 | 35 | #1,394 | 65 | #854 |
| 1923 | 31 | #1,479 | 48 | #1,019 |
| 1922 | 39 | #1,261 | 40 | #1,131 |
| 1921 | 42 | #1,193 | 51 | #987 |
| 1920 | 40 | #1,220 | 41 | #1,115 |
| 1919 | 43 | #1,129 | 38 | #1,135 |
| 1918 | 53 | #994 | 38 | #1,121 |
| 1917 | 49 | #1,008 | 25 | #1,420 |
| 1916 | 35 | #1,221 | 28 | #1,290 |
| 1915 | 30 | #1,303 | 22 | #1,490 |
| 1914 | 24 | #1,288 | 18 | #1,473 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,641 | 11 | #1,759 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,513 | 12 | #1,489 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,883 | under 5 | |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,639 | under 5 | |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,405 | under 5 | |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,585 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Luverne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,914 Americans recorded as Luverne, 44% are girls and 56% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Luverne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Luverne, and how old are they?
An estimated 190 Americans named Luverne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (10% of everyone recorded); the median is 83 years old and half are between 76 and 89. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 414 people named Luverne (185 women and girls, 229 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 336 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Luverne born?
The states with the most babies named Luverne are Minnesota, Iowa and South Dakota, with 94% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota and Iowa and South Dakota are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 804 | not ranked | 18.8× |
| Iowa | 164 | not ranked | 4.1× |
| South Dakota | 93 | not ranked | 7.5× |
| Alabama | 33 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Dakota | 29 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Wisconsin | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Luverne is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Luverne is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1910 it was given 18.8 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 boys’ 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 Luverne with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Luverne
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 Luverne and names like it
- Compare Luverne and VerylBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLuverne peaked in 1924.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Luverne since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Luverne.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Luverne alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with LMost given first.