Gender-neutral · #11932 in 2025

Lu

Lu: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#11932
Born 2025
7
Peak year
1954

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 girls born

Lu per 100,000 girls born, by year. Peak: 1954. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Lu has been rising: its share of girls born has grown over the last 10 years. It now stands at 2% of its 1954 peak.

Boy or girl?

Over the last 10 years, 80% of children named Lu were recorded as girls and 20% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.

Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.