Luz
Luz is ranked 750th among girls in 2024 (375 births). Its best rank was 454th, in 1972.
- Rank in 2024
- #750up 93 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3750.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 1999573 births
- Best rank
- #454in 1972
- Since 1886
- 28,476people given the name
The story in the numbers
27,545 girls have been named Luz in the United States since 1886, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1999, with 573 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1987, and the 2000s alone account for 17%. It has spent 81 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 931 boys have also been given it, 3.3% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Luz | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 18 | |
| 1890s | 47 | |
| 1900s | 95 | |
| 1910s | 290 | |
| 1920s | 654 | |
| 1930s | 391 | |
| 1940s | 536 | |
| 1950s | 1,782 | |
| 1960s | 3,404 | |
| 1970s | 3,882 | |
| 1980s | 3,460 | |
| 1990s | 4,000 | |
| 2000s | 4,640 | |
| 2010s | 2,868 | |
| 2020s | 1,478 |
In 1999, its biggest year
Luz was the 464th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1999 were Emily, Hannah, Alexis, Sarah and Samantha. See all of 1999.
Names that rose and fell with Luz
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Joyapeak 1990
- Annamariapeak 1966
- Brigidpeak 2000
- Myriampeak 2003
- Dyanapeak 2004
- Silviapeak 1991
- Gracielapeak 1998
- Elisapeak 2012
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.