Lua Girl
How popular is Lua?
#2,076 girl name in 2025
90 baby girls were named Lua in the US in 2025, making it the 2076th most popular girl name.
Lua popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #2,076 for girls (▼ 96 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 90 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+275% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #5,456 in 2015, #1,959 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2023 (114 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1,780 in 2023 |
| First recorded | 1910 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Lua counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Lua family of names ranked #1,609 for girls in 2025 (#1,587 the year before), with 95 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Lua | 90 | 95% |
| Luah | 5 | 5% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Lua is most popular
Babies named Lua per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Massachusetts: 0.1 per 1,000 (16 girls)
- Florida: 0.1 per 1,000 (49 girls)
- California: 0.1 per 1,000 (96 girls)
- Texas: 0.1 per 1,000 (76 girls)
- New Jersey: 0.1 per 1,000 (14 girls)
Lua by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #2,398 |
| 1970s | 11 | #8,560 |
| 1980s | 12 | #9,093 |
| 2000s | 66 | #8,961 |
| 2010s | 384 | #2,071 |
| 2020s | 611 | #1,780 |
Girl names about as popular as Lua
Questions
- Is Lua a boy or girl name?
- Lua is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Lua were girls.
- How popular is the name Lua?
- 90 baby girls were named Lua in the US in 2025, making it the 2076th most popular girl name.
- When was Lua most popular?
- Lua peaked in 2023, when 114 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1,780 in 2023.
- How many people are named Lua?
- 1,089 babies have been named Lua in the US since 1880. We estimate about 1,079 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 6.
- Where is Lua most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Lua was most common in Massachusetts, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.