How Many People Are Named Luann?

12,534

people named Luann are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 27,268 people in the US has this name

Based on 15,512 babies named Luann in Social Security records from 1921 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,141

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,176

See the top 100

Peak Year

1954

1,644 births

Trend

→

Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: loo-AN
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Either a combination of LOU and ANN or a variant of LUANA. It was popularized in the 1950s by the singer Lu Ann Simms (1933-2003).

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Luann in English. Counting Luann and these spellings together, about 19,255 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Luann in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Luann alive today is about 65 years old, and 83% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 62 and 71 in 2025.

Under 30 303
2.4%
30 to 59 1,816
14.5%
60 and over 10,414
83.1%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Luann first appears in the records in 1921 and was given most often in 1954, to 1,644 babies. In 2025, 7 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1921 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Luann has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #192, in 1954. In 2025 it ranked #12,649.

Girls
Rank in 2025#12,649
Best rank#192 (1954)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#303 in the 1950s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Luann alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Luann were born in Pennsylvania than in any other state: about 1,201 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Luann was given 4.9 times as often in Minnesota, 4.4 times in Iowa and 3.7 times in Wisconsin.

Pennsylvania 1,201
Minnesota 991
New York 904
Wisconsin 868
Ohio 820
Michigan 780
Iowa 697
Illinois 659
California 434
Indiana 408
New Jersey 360
Massachusetts 229
Utah 205
Nebraska 182
Texas 178
Colorado 145
Connecticut 132
North Carolina 120
North Dakota 108
Kansas 104
Washington 103
Florida 96
Missouri 96
Maryland 93
Oklahoma 88
South Dakota 68
Georgia 58
Kentucky 53
West Virginia 44
Idaho 44
Oregon 44
Virginia 37
Tennessee 33
Rhode Island 30
Maine 29
Alabama 27
South Carolina 25
Arizona 25
New Hampshire 25
Arkansas 12
Montana 8
New Mexico 6
Delaware 4
Hawaii 4

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