Luz
Luz was given to 324 girls in 2025, #839 among girls’ names; 28,805 Americans have been recorded with it since 1886 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 25,600 Americans named Luz and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 20 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Luz by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Luz mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Luz is “a female given name from Spanish.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Luz?
#839 among girls’ names, 2025
Luz rose from #961 in 2015 to #839 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.16 to 0.20 per 1,000.
586 babies in 1999, the peak
Luz peaked in 1999, when 586 babies were given it (573 girls, #464 among girls’ names). The 324 births of 2025 are 55% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 324 | #839 | 0.20 |
| 2024 | 377 | #747 | 0.23 |
| 2023 | 321 | #844 | 0.20 |
| 2022 | 288 | #945 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 245 | #1,036 | 0.15 |
| 2020 | 250 | #1,010 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 297 | #898 | 0.18 |
| 2018 | 260 | #1,004 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 254 | #1,023 | 0.15 |
| 2016 | 264 | #1,002 | 0.15 |
Every recorded year (137)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 283 | #961 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 241 | #1,067 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 288 | #893 | 0.16 |
| 2012 | 307 | #869 | 0.17 |
| 2011 | 301 | #870 | 0.17 |
| 2010 | 374 | #746 | 0.21 |
| 2009 | 380 | #747 | 0.21 |
| 2008 | 407 | #734 | 0.22 |
| 2007 | 498 | #604 | 0.26 |
| 2006 | 496 | #590 | 0.26 |
| 2005 | 472 | #603 | 0.26 |
| 2004 | 467 | #601 | 0.25 |
| 2003 | 478 | #578 | 0.26 |
| 2002 | 437 | #591 | 0.24 |
| 2001 | 517 | #518 | 0.29 |
| 2000 | 489 | #533 | 0.27 |
| 1999 | 573 | #464 | 0.32 |
| 1998 | 510 | #502 | 0.29 |
| 1997 | 479 | #509 | 0.28 |
| 1996 | 322 | #680 | 0.18 |
| 1995 | 329 | #653 | 0.19 |
| 1994 | 336 | #645 | 0.19 |
| 1993 | 355 | #632 | 0.20 |
| 1992 | 360 | #630 | 0.20 |
| 1991 | 362 | #624 | 0.19 |
| 1990 | 374 | #603 | 0.20 |
| 1989 | 338 | #625 | 0.18 |
| 1988 | 310 | #640 | 0.17 |
| 1987 | 346 | #574 | 0.20 |
| 1986 | 322 | #600 | 0.19 |
| 1985 | 333 | #587 | 0.19 |
| 1984 | 314 | #583 | 0.19 |
| 1983 | 350 | #536 | 0.21 |
| 1982 | 373 | #525 | 0.22 |
| 1981 | 352 | #535 | 0.21 |
| 1980 | 422 | #492 | 0.25 |
| 1979 | 447 | #456 | 0.28 |
| 1978 | 357 | #520 | 0.23 |
| 1977 | 364 | #510 | 0.24 |
| 1976 | 375 | #488 | 0.26 |
| 1975 | 381 | #483 | 0.26 |
| 1974 | 375 | #475 | 0.26 |
| 1973 | 344 | #502 | 0.24 |
| 1972 | 411 | #454 | 0.27 |
| 1971 | 402 | #480 | 0.24 |
| 1970 | 426 | #476 | 0.24 |
| 1969 | 442 | #460 | 0.26 |
| 1968 | 421 | #468 | 0.26 |
| 1967 | 348 | #509 | 0.21 |
| 1966 | 372 | #484 | 0.22 |
| 1965 | 307 | #541 | 0.17 |
| 1964 | 343 | #531 | 0.18 |
| 1963 | 321 | #542 | 0.17 |
| 1962 | 284 | #588 | 0.14 |
| 1961 | 280 | #603 | 0.14 |
| 1960 | 286 | #586 | 0.14 |
| 1959 | 249 | #632 | 0.12 |
| 1958 | 246 | #625 | 0.12 |
| 1957 | 215 | #670 | 0.11 |
| 1956 | 231 | #630 | 0.12 |
| 1955 | 204 | #655 | 0.10 |
| 1954 | 183 | #692 | 0.09 |
| 1953 | 153 | #737 | 0.08 |
| 1952 | 104 | #909 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 109 | #859 | 0.06 |
| 1950 | 88 | #964 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 76 | #1,027 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 84 | #952 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 70 | #1,063 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 57 | #1,125 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 43 | #1,224 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 52 | #1,083 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 51 | #1,136 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 30 | #1,518 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 31 | #1,403 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 42 | #1,127 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 31 | #1,336 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 32 | #1,302 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 32 | #1,295 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 23 | #1,574 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 46 | #1,029 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 33 | #1,250 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 41 | #1,094 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 48 | #1,024 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 40 | #1,141 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 65 | #905 | 0.06 |
| 1929 | 75 | #819 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 95 | #726 | 0.08 |
| 1927 | 85 | #790 | 0.07 |
| 1926 | 59 | #977 | 0.05 |
| 1925 | 60 | #966 | 0.05 |
| 1924 | 68 | #924 | 0.05 |
| 1923 | 47 | #1,122 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 60 | #964 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 51 | #1,067 | 0.04 |
| 1920 | 54 | #1,009 | 0.05 |
| 1919 | 42 | #1,150 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 36 | #1,269 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 31 | #1,323 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 29 | #1,371 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 31 | #1,276 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 26 | #1,215 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 33 | #937 | 0.05 |
| 1912 | 26 | #1,021 | 0.05 |
| 1911 | 17 | #1,094 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 19 | #1,018 | 0.05 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,887 | 0.02 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,627 | 0.02 |
| 1907 | 16 | #972 | 0.05 |
| 1906 | 13 | #1,078 | 0.04 |
| 1905 | 12 | #1,139 | 0.04 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,584 | 0.03 |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,395 | 0.03 |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,279 | 0.03 |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,289 | 0.03 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,668 | 0.02 |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,340 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,850 | 0.02 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,697 | 0.02 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,507 | 0.03 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,522 | 0.03 |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,134 | 0.04 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,573 | 0.02 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,446 | 0.03 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,399 | 0.03 |
| 1887 | 8 | #910 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,209 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Luz a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 28,805 Americans recorded as Luz, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 324 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Luz: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Luz, and how old are they?
25,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 28,805 Americans ever recorded as Luz. The median Luz alive today is 35 years old; half are between 20 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 90,901 people named Luz (89,851 women and girls, 1,050 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 24,439 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.7 times 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 235 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,010 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5,900 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,490 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,230 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,700 |
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 Luz born?
The states with the most babies named Luz are California, Texas and New York, with 50% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 66 | #506 | 2.1× |
| Texas | 59 | #542 | 2.3× |
| New York | 17 | #931 | 2.2× |
| Illinois | 16 | #611 | 1.1× |
| Arizona | 16 | #438 | 1.9× |
| New Jersey | 14 | #556 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,219 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #876 | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 10 | #959 | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 9 | #795 | 0.2× |
Where Luz is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Luz is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 2.3 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 Luz 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 Luz
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 Luz and names like it
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- The most given names of the 1990sLuz peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Luz since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Luz: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Luz.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Luz alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.