# Lucky (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lucky/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 4,226 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,624 / 602 (14% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 107, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 10 | 10,910 |
| 2011 | 13 | 8,952 |
| 2012 | 10 | 10,942 |
| 2013 | 15 | 8,016 |
| 2014 | 11 | 9,907 |
| 2016 | 8 | 12,428 |
| 2017 | 12 | 9,120 |
| 2018 | 12 | 8,952 |
| 2019 | 17 | 6,913 |
| 2020 | 15 | 7,426 |
| 2021 | 14 | 7,870 |
| 2022 | 15 | 7,499 |
| 2023 | 16 | 7,121 |
| 2024 | 25 | 5,233 |
| 2025 | 34 | 4,233 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 42 | 2,834 |
| 2012 | 37 | 3,088 |
| 2013 | 33 | 3,314 |
| 2014 | 54 | 2,389 |
| 2015 | 44 | 2,749 |
| 2016 | 56 | 2,356 |
| 2017 | 44 | 2,780 |
| 2018 | 44 | 2,777 |
| 2019 | 47 | 2,718 |
| 2020 | 44 | 2,786 |
| 2021 | 70 | 2,090 |
| 2022 | 58 | 2,428 |
| 2023 | 46 | 2,786 |
| 2024 | 87 | 1,857 |
| 2025 | 108 | 1,580 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | 2,683 |
| 1997 | 4 | 3,174 |
| 1998 | 3 | 3,848 |
| 1999 | 4 | 3,225 |
| 2000 | 5 | 2,746 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,867 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 4 | 3,385 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2008 | 3 | 4,432 |
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2015 | 7 | 2,707 |
| 2017 | 9 | 2,324 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3,937 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,334 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2022 | 6 | 3,048 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |
| 2024 | 7 | 2,921 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2,014 |

## People named Lucky

- Lucky Thompson, American jazz saxophonist (1924–2005)
- Lucky Peterson, American musician (1964–2020)
- Lucky McKee, American writer and director

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.