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Luna

girls’ nameAt its peak · modern nameCompare

Luna is ranked 13th among girls in 2024 (7,135 births). Its best rank was 10th, in 2022–2023.

Rank in 2024
#13down 3 from 2023
Births in 2024
7,1350.44% of girls
Peak year
20228,967 births
Best rank
#10first in 2022
Since 1880
81,568people given the name
Babies named Luna, by year of birthgirls
02.5k5k7.5k10k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

81,568 girls have been named Luna in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 8,967 births — 0.55% of all girls recorded that year.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2022, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2019, and the 2020s alone account for 49%. It has spent 58 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 9 of them in the top 100 and 2 in the top 10.

Rank among girls, year by year

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

By decade

Decadegirls named Luna
1880s168
1890s278
1900s298
1910s409
1920s414
1930s173
1940s91
1950s44
1960s29
1970s67
1980s115
1990s552
2000s4,737
2010s34,168
2020s40,025

In 2022, its biggest year

Luna was the 10th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2022 were Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia and Sophia. See all of 2022.

Names that rose and fell with Luna

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.