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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Lu

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#12,652

down −918 places

2025 births

7

down −1 births

All-time births

4,046

0% of them in 2025

More common than

96%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1954
394 births
Best rank
#442
in 1954
First recorded
1886
#1,052 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1952
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
99 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1954394#442Peak
  2. 1953319#484
  3. 1956302#540
  4. 1955276#549
  5. 1957228#652

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #442 in 1954 · peak births 394 in 1954

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 1% boys■ 99% girls

35 boys · 4,046 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Lu has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.