Lux
Lux is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 60 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 600.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2014124 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 2001
- 2,945people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,594 girls have been named Lux in the United States since 2001, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 124 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 2016, and the 2010s alone account for 61%.
Lux is used for both sexes: 46% of its bearers are boys (1,351), most of them born around 2022.
By decade
In 2014, its biggest year
Lux was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2014 were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Isabella and Ava. See all of 2014.
Names that rose and fell with Lux
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Londynnpeak 2015
- Bristolpeak 2019
- Zivapeak 2011
- Manhapeak 2023
- Brynleypeak 2017
- Hadleypeak 2014
- Acelynnpeak 2014
- Taelynnpeak 2019
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.