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Luellen vs Luevenia

American parents have registered 695 Luellens since 1880, against 567 Luevenias. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Luellen against Luevenia, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Luellen Luevenia

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 70 years in which either name was published, Luellen for 38 years and Luevenia for 32 years. The lead changed hands 17 times.

11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Luellen Luevenia
Total US births 695567
Most in one year 2420
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 310100
Median age today 7180
Peak year 19481919
Best rank 1,953rd girls1,855th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19001894
Girls / boys 690 / 5567 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Luevenias alive today are over 80; half the Luellens are over 71. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Luellen and Luevenia.