Lue
Lue is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 310th, in 1886.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1919160 births
- Best rank
- #310in 1886
- Since 1880
- 7,169people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,474 girls have been named Lue in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 160 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 160 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 68 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 695 boys have also been given it, 9.7% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lue | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 283 | |
| 1890s | 336 | |
| 1900s | 488 | |
| 1910s | 1,007 | |
| 1920s | 1,390 | |
| 1930s | 1,103 | |
| 1940s | 940 | |
| 1950s | 626 | |
| 1960s | 242 | |
| 1970s | 54 | |
| 1980s | 5 |
In 1919, its biggest year
Lue was the 544th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1919 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Lue
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Louellapeak 1932
- Georgiepeak 1925
- Louveniapeak 1924
- Corneliapeak 1921
- Anniepeak 1922
- Alicepeak 1921
- Bertapeak 1926
- Inapeak 1921
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.