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Luverne

boys’ name · 56%girls’ name · 44%FadedCompare

Luverne is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 854th, in 1924.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
192465 births
Best rank
#854in 1924
Since 1912
1,913people given the name
Babies named Luverne, by year of birthboysgirls
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The story in the numbers

1,066 boys have been named Luverne in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 65 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 65 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 43%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Luverne is used for both sexes: 44% of its bearers are girls (847), most of them born around 1918.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Luverne
1910s192
1920s454
1930s261
1940s122
1950s37

In 1924, its biggest year

Luverne was the 854th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1924 were Robert, John, William, James and Charles. See all of 1924.

Names that rose and fell with Luverne

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.