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Luverne

About 1,914 American babies have been named Luverne since 1907, most of them around 1924. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 1959. About 210 Luvernes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 82.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

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Girls and boys called Luverne

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

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Luverne crossed from girls to boys in 1920, and has stayed there for 8 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 65% boys, and in 1942 it was 52%.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 29 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
1,914
Estimated living today
210
Median age today
82
Peak year
1924
Best rank
849th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1907
Girls / boys
847 / 1,067

How old the living Luvernes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

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Of the 1,914 babies given the name since 1907, about 210 are alive — 11 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1943 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Luverne is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Luverne is most concentrated in Minnesota (38.2×), South Dakota (24.1×), Iowa (10.8×), North Dakota (7.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1924

The most popular boys’ names the year Luverne peaked:

All the names of 1924

Related names

Luverne against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.