Luz Girl
How popular is Luz?
#838 girl name in 2025
324 baby girls were named Luz in the US in 2025, making it the 838th most popular girl name.
Luz popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #838 for girls (▼ 91 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 324 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (+14% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #958 in 2015, #1,010 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1999 (573 girls) |
| Highest rank | #454 in 1972 |
| First recorded | 1886 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 1% boys, 99% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Luz counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Luz family of names ranked #772 for girls in 2025 (#703 the year before), with 329 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Luz | 324 | 98% |
| Luseh | 5 | 2% |
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 Luz is most popular
Babies named Luz per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Arizona: 0.5 per 1,000 (68 girls)
- California: 0.4 per 1,000 (335 girls)
- Texas: 0.3 per 1,000 (276 girls)
- New Jersey: 0.3 per 1,000 (54 girls)
- Colorado: 0.3 per 1,000 (29 girls)
Luz by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 18 | #860 |
| 1890s | 47 | #1,091 |
| 1900s | 95 | #945 |
| 1910s | 290 | #925 |
| 1920s | 654 | #724 |
| 1930s | 391 | #894 |
| 1940s | 536 | #949 |
| 1950s | 1,782 | #625 |
| 1960s | 3,404 | #460 |
| 1970s | 3,882 | #454 |
| 1980s | 3,460 | #490 |
| 1990s | 4,000 | #463 |
| 2000s | 4,641 | #518 |
| 2010s | 2,869 | #746 |
| 2020s | 1,805 | #747 |
Girl names about as popular as Luz
Questions
- Is Luz a boy or girl name?
- Luz is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 99% of babies named Luz were girls.
- How popular is the name Luz?
- 324 baby girls were named Luz in the US in 2025, making it the 838th most popular girl name.
- When was Luz most popular?
- Luz peaked in 1999, when 573 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #454 in 1972.
- How many people are named Luz?
- 28,805 babies have been named Luz in the US since 1880. We estimate about 25,840 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 35.
- Where is Luz most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Luz was most common in Arizona, at 0.5 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.