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Luc

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Luc is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 34 births. Its best rank was 934th, in 2002.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
340.00% of boys
Peak year
2002172 births
Best rank
#934in 2002
Since 1949
3,581people given the name
Babies named Luc, by year of birthboys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

3,581 boys have been named Luc in the United States since 1949, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2002, with 172 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 2000s alone account for 39%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Luc
1940s5
1950s34
1960s86
1970s69
1980s156
1990s716
2000s1,405
2010s865
2020s245

In 2002, its biggest year

Luc was the 934th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2002 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Ethan. See all of 2002.

Names that rose and fell with Luc

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.