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How popular is “Luke” in the USA?

Number of people named “Luke” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Luke” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Luke” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Luke” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Luke” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Luke” by birth year

This chart shows how “Luke” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 43 0.000213416 43 -100%
1881 42 0.000217969 42 -100%
1882 44 0.000198616 44 -100%
1883 38 0.000175159 38 -100%
1884 39 0.00016019 39 -100%
1885 50 0.000207595 50 -100%
1886 50 0.000195836 50 -100%
1887 47 0.000189982 47 -100%
1888 45 0.000150263 45 -100%
1889 44 0.000152278 44 -100%
1890 42 0.000139349 42 -100%
1891 23 0.000080231 23 -100%
1892 42 0.000125608 42 -100%
1893 48 0.000147591 48 -100%
1894 32 0.000094482 32 -100%
1895 53 0.000150989 53 -100%
1896 45 0.00012588 45 -100%
1897 44 0.000126817 44 -100%
1898 38 0.000099619 38 -100%
1899 35 0.000103174 35 -100%
1900 70 0.000155466 70 -100%
1901 37 0.000106995 37 -100%
1902 41 0.000106016 41 -100%
1903 46 0.000120672 46 -100%
1904 40 0.000099136 40 -100%
1905 53 0.000125023 53 -100%
1906 57 0.000133037 57 -100%
1907 45 0.000096693 45 -100%
1908 52 0.000106416 52 -100%
1909 57 0.000111497 57 -100%
1910 71 0.000120194 71 -100%
1911 62 0.000096232 62 -100%
1912 83 0.000084003 83 -100%
1913 115 0.000101134 115 -100%
1914 168 0.000118615 168 -100%
1915 157 0.000085679 157 -100%
1916 183 0.000094602 183 -100%
1917 163 0.000081226 163 -100%
1918 176 0.000081064 176 -100%
1919 165 0.00007819 165 -100%
1920 166 0.000073366 166 -100%
1921 165 0.000070679 165 -100%
1922 190 0.000083 190 -100%
1923 185 0.000080348 185 -100%
1924 206 0.000086496 206 -100%
1925 165 0.000070715 165 -100%
1926 162 0.00007056 162 -100%
1927 158 0.000068122 158 -100%
1928 149 0.000065902 149 -100%
1929 153 0.000069794 153 -100%
1930 141 0.00006342 141 -100%
1931 142 0.000067478 142 -100%
1932 165 0.000078151 165 -100%
1933 110 0.000055015 110 -100%
1934 122 0.000058744 122 -100%
1935 121 0.000057898 121 -100%
1936 116 0.000055834 116 -100%
1937 113 0.000053035 113 -100%
1938 123 0.000055591 123 -100%
1939 116 0.000052645 116 -100%
1940 116 0.000050376 116 -100%
1941 121 0.000049663 121 -100%
1942 110 0.000040266 110 -100%
1943 126 0.00004464 126 -100%
1944 117 0.000043493 117 -100%
1945 117 0.000044103 117 -100%
1946 130 0.000040685 130 -100%
1947 151 0.000041917 151 -100%
1948 155 0.000044895 155 -100%
1949 155 0.000044479 155 -100%
1950 170 0.000048525 170 -100%
1951 169 0.000045877 169 -100%
1952 158 0.000041601 158 -100%
1953 169 0.000043855 169 -100%
1954 197 0.000049489 197 -100%
1955 219 0.000054544 219 -100%
1956 245 0.000059422 245 -100%
1957 291 0.00006925 291 -100%
1958 337 0.000081521 337 -100%
1959 353 0.000084897 353 -100%
1960 424 0.000102075 424 -100%
1961 415 0.000100186 415 -100%
1962 426 0.000105566 426 -100%
1963 422 0.000106614 422 -100%
1964 445 0.000114466 445 -100%
1965 400 0.000110331 400 -100%
1966 355 0.000102139 355 -100%
1967 346 0.000101918 346 -100%
1968 387 0.000114551 387 -100%
1969 452 0.00013006 452 -100%
1970 541 0.000150006 6 535 -98%
1971 539 0.000157035 9 530 -97%
1972 580 0.000184537 5 575 -98%
1973 633 0.000209819 633 -100%
1974 725 0.000238487 725 -100%
1975 778 0.000257668 778 -100%
1976 913 0.000300893 913 -100%
1977 1247 0.000392571 5 1242 -99%
1978 1892 0.000596118 10 1882 -99%
1979 2482 0.000746017 11 2471 -99%
1980 3132 0.000909274 21 3111 -99%
1981 3026 0.000874724 11 3015 -99%
1982 2497 0.000711809 19 2478 -98%
1983 2678 0.000773242 23 2655 -98%
1984 2497 0.000715728 24 2473 -98%
1985 2760 0.000773302 19 2741 -99%
1986 2669 0.000750335 15 2654 -99%
1987 2609 0.000723594 16 2593 -99%
1988 2643 0.000715283 23 2620 -98%
1989 2719 0.000707254 7 2712 -99%
1990 2891 0.00073144 7 2884 -100%
1991 3023 0.00077607 10 3013 -99%
1992 4079 0.001061888 13 4066 -99%
1993 4369 0.0011588 11 4358 -99%
1994 4106 0.00110446 11 4095 -99%
1995 4635 0.001265648 6 4629 -100%
1996 5023 0.001377223 6 5017 -100%
1997 4961 0.001368269 8 4953 -100%
1998 5293 0.001439016 9 5284 -100%
1999 6149 0.001664651 12 6137 -100%
2000 7154 0.001892641 5 7149 -100%
2001 8024 0.002143512 16 8008 -100%
2002 8701 0.002327534 9 8692 -100%
2003 9319 0.002450873 15 9304 -100%
2004 9633 0.002521119 36 9597 -99%
2005 10027 0.002607907 16 10011 -100%
2006 10100 0.002552962 13 10087 -100%
2007 9615 0.002405143 7 9608 -100%
2008 9434 0.002400103 11 9423 -100%
2009 8624 0.002257488 8624 -100%
2010 8855 0.002396003 6 8849 -100%
2011 8714 0.002382312 8 8706 -100%
2012 9030 0.002468989 8 9022 -100%
2013 9592 0.002631069 5 9587 -100%
2014 10534 0.002842129 13 10521 -100%
2015 10300 0.002783098 8 10292 -100%
2016 10010 0.002728489 11 9999 -100%
2017 9229 0.002580676 6 9223 -100%
2018 8633 0.002455419 9 8624 -100%
2019 8450 0.002434504 10 8440 -100%
2020 7788 0.002331334 6 7782 -100%
2021 7715 0.002277189 7 7708 -100%
2022 7396 0.002186138 7 7389 -100%
2023 7244 0.002187729 7244 -100%
2024 7046 0.002116869 7 7039 -100%

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