Lu

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Lu is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 442nd, in 1954.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 80.00% of girls
Peak year: 1954394 births
Best rank: #442in 1954
Since 1886: 4,040people given the name

Babies named Lu, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

4,040 girls have been named Lu in the United States since 1886, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1954, with 394 births.

The name has all but left use: 8 births in 2024, against 394 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1955, and the 1950s alone account for 50%. It has spent 11 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Lu
1880s	26
1890s	30
1900s	33
1910s	97
1920s	191
1930s	323
1940s	370
1950s	2,021
1960s	748
1970s	100
1980s	25
1990s	5
2010s	36
2020s	35

In 1954, its biggest year

Lu was the 442nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1954 were Mary, Linda, Deborah, Patricia and Susan. See all of 1954.

Names that rose and fell with Lu

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.