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Lurena vs Lurene

American parents have registered 890 Lurenes since 1880, against 429 Lurenas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lurena against Lurene, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lurena Lurene

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 76 years in which either name was published, Lurene for 60 years and Lurena for 16 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Lurena Lurene
Total US births 429890
Most in one year 1636
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 90240
Median age today 7474
Peak year 19171922
Best rank 2,100th girls1,309th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18881898
Girls / boys 429 / 0890 / 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.

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