# Lue (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lue/  
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 | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 7,169 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 695 / 6,474 (90% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 30 | 2,195 |
| 1963 | 25 | 2,461 |
| 1964 | 33 | 2,095 |
| 1965 | 12 | 3,855 |
| 1966 | 14 | 3,473 |
| 1967 | 15 | 3,420 |
| 1968 | 13 | 3,907 |
| 1969 | 11 | 4,606 |
| 1970 | 15 | 3,970 |
| 1971 | 9 | 5,808 |
| 1972 | 11 | 4,966 |
| 1973 | 8 | 6,413 |
| 1976 | 6 | 8,751 |
| 1977 | 5 | 10,558 |
| 1985 | 5 | 11,713 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 6 | 6,627 |
| 1988 | 9 | 5,054 |
| 1989 | 15 | 3,745 |
| 1990 | 18 | 3,404 |
| 1991 | 11 | 4,973 |
| 1992 | 8 | 6,463 |
| 1993 | 10 | 5,634 |
| 1994 | 12 | 4,997 |
| 1995 | 9 | 6,219 |
| 1996 | 7 | 7,656 |
| 1997 | 8 | 7,019 |
| 2000 | 8 | 7,905 |
| 2007 | 6 | 11,801 |
| 2009 | 5 | 13,709 |
| 2013 | 5 | 13,302 |

## 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.