Luna
Luna is ranked 13th among girls in 2024 (7,135 births). Its best rank was 10th, in 2022–2023.
- Rank in 2024
- #13down 3 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 7,1350.44% of girls
- Peak year
- 20228,967 births
- Best rank
- #10first in 2022
- Since 1880
- 81,568people given the name
The story in the numbers
81,568 girls have been named Luna in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 8,967 births — 0.55% of all girls recorded that year.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2022, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2019, and the 2020s alone account for 49%. It has spent 58 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 9 of them in the top 100 and 2 in the top 10.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Luna | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 168 | |
| 1890s | 278 | |
| 1900s | 298 | |
| 1910s | 409 | |
| 1920s | 414 | |
| 1930s | 173 | |
| 1940s | 91 | |
| 1950s | 44 | |
| 1960s | 29 | |
| 1970s | 67 | |
| 1980s | 115 | |
| 1990s | 552 | |
| 2000s | 4,737 | |
| 2010s | 34,168 | |
| 2020s | 40,025 |
In 2022, its biggest year
Luna was the 10th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2022 were Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia and Sophia. See all of 2022.
Names that rose and fell with Luna
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Bellamypeak 2022
- Zeliepeak 2021
- Laiapeak 2022
- Adirapeak 2019
- Briarpeak 2021
- Emberleepeak 2020
- Korrapeak 2021
- Novaleighpeak 2022
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.