Luster
Luster is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 709th, in 1904.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192037 births
- Best rank
- #709in 1904
- Since 1882
- 1,120people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,120 boys have been named Luster in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 37 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 37 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1932, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 6 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Luster | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 26 | |
| 1900s | 52 | |
| 1910s | 169 | |
| 1920s | 255 | |
| 1930s | 188 | |
| 1940s | 169 | |
| 1950s | 147 | |
| 1960s | 79 | |
| 1970s | 24 | |
| 1980s | 6 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Luster was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Luster
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Toypeak 1919
- Curleypeak 1944
- Aciepeak 1928
- Powellpeak 1919
- Murrypeak 1917
- Cecilpeak 1920
- Cyrilpeak 1916
- Harviepeak 1922
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.