Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Luna” in the USA?

Number of people named “Luna” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Luna” 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 “Luna” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Luna” by birth year

This chart shows how “Luna” 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 15 0.000074448 15 100%
1881 18 0.000093415 18 100%
1883 17 0.000078361 17 100%
1884 18 0.000073934 18 100%
1885 15 0.000062278 15 100%
1886 20 0.000078334 20 100%
1887 22 0.000088928 22 100%
1888 24 0.000080141 24 100%
1889 19 0.000065756 19 100%
1890 24 0.000079628 24 100%
1891 24 0.000083719 24 100%
1892 25 0.000074767 25 100%
1893 27 0.00008302 27 100%
1894 30 0.000088577 30 100%
1895 23 0.000065523 23 100%
1896 27 0.000075528 27 100%
1897 36 0.000103759 36 100%
1898 32 0.000083889 32 100%
1899 30 0.000088435 30 100%
1900 30 0.000066628 30 100%
1901 23 0.00006651 23 100%
1902 32 0.000082744 32 100%
1903 28 0.000073452 28 100%
1904 30 0.000074352 30 100%
1905 30 0.000070768 30 100%
1906 26 0.000060684 26 100%
1907 33 0.000070908 33 100%
1908 39 0.000079812 39 100%
1909 27 0.000052814 27 100%
1910 38 0.000064329 38 100%
1911 23 0.000035699 23 100%
1912 31 0.000031375 31 100%
1913 34 0.0000299 34 100%
1914 44 0.000031066 44 100%
1915 44 0.000024012 39 5 77%
1916 58 0.000029983 58 100%
1917 49 0.000024418 49 100%
1918 45 0.000020727 45 100%
1919 53 0.000025116 48 5 81%
1920 47 0.000020772 47 100%
1921 61 0.00002613 61 100%
1922 50 0.000021842 50 100%
1923 56 0.000024322 56 100%
1924 34 0.000014276 34 100%
1925 44 0.000018857 44 100%
1926 22 0.000009582 22 100%
1927 38 0.000016384 38 100%
1928 28 0.000012384 28 100%
1929 34 0.00001551 34 100%
1930 21 0.000009445 21 100%
1931 18 0.000008554 18 100%
1932 29 0.000013736 29 100%
1933 19 0.000009503 19 100%
1934 15 0.000007223 15 100%
1935 19 0.000009091 19 100%
1936 12 0.000005776 12 100%
1937 16 0.000007509 16 100%
1938 12 0.000005424 12 100%
1939 12 0.000005446 12 100%
1940 8 0.000003474 8 100%
1941 13 0.000005336 13 100%
1942 17 0.000006223 17 100%
1943 10 0.000003543 10 100%
1944 12 0.000004461 12 100%
1945 8 0.000003016 8 100%
1946 6 0.000001878 6 100%
1948 9 0.000002607 9 100%
1949 8 0.000002296 8 100%
1950 6 0.000001713 6 100%
1951 8 0.000002172 8 100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 100%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 100%
1956 5 0.000001213 5 100%
1957 8 0.000001904 8 100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 100%
1960 6 0.000001444 6 100%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 100%
1964 5 0.000001286 5 100%
1969 12 0.000003453 12 100%
1970 11 0.00000305 11 100%
1972 11 0.0000035 11 100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 100%
1975 9 0.000002981 9 100%
1976 8 0.000002637 8 100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 100%
1978 7 0.000002206 7 100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 100%
1980 10 0.000002903 10 100%
1981 11 0.00000318 11 100%
1982 12 0.000003421 12 100%
1983 9 0.000002599 9 100%
1984 11 0.000003153 11 100%
1985 8 0.000002241 8 100%
1986 13 0.000003655 13 100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 100%
1988 16 0.00000433 16 100%
1989 20 0.000005202 20 100%
1990 15 0.000003795 15 100%
1991 23 0.000005905 23 100%
1992 22 0.000005727 22 100%
1993 23 0.0000061 23 100%
1994 47 0.000012642 47 100%
1995 50 0.000013653 50 100%
1996 69 0.000018919 69 100%
1997 91 0.000025098 91 100%
1998 103 0.000028003 103 100%
1999 109 0.000029508 109 100%
2000 144 0.000038096 144 100%
2001 169 0.000045146 169 100%
2002 178 0.000047615 178 100%
2003 272 0.000071535 272 100%
2004 369 0.000096574 369 100%
2005 477 0.000124062 477 100%
2006 592 0.000149639 592 100%
2007 713 0.000178353 713 100%
2008 808 0.000205563 808 100%
2009 1015 0.000265695 1015 100%
2010 949 0.000256782 942 7 99%
2011 1145 0.00031303 1145 100%
2012 1414 0.000386617 1414 100%
2013 1747 0.000479199 1747 100%
2014 2346 0.000632963 2341 5 100%
2015 2814 0.000760353 2809 5 100%
2016 3691 0.001006079 3685 6 100%
2017 5363 0.001499639 5355 8 100%
2018 6937 0.001973039 6932 5 100%
2019 7807 0.002249251 7798 9 100%
2020 7856 0.00235169 7845 11 100%
2021 8248 0.002434511 8237 11 100%
2022 8982 0.002654934 8967 15 100%
2023 7850 0.002370744 7841 9 100%
2024 7143 0.002146011 7135 8 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Luna:

  1. Lumine
  2. Lumir
  3. Lummie
  4. Lumumba
  5. Lun
  6. Luna (this page)
  7. Lunabella
  8. Lunabelle
  9. Lunafreya
  10. Lunagrace
  11. Lunah