Luella
Luella is ranked 827th among girls in 2024 (331 births). Its best rank was 120th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- #827up 105 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3310.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 1918949 births
- Best rank
- #120in 1881
- Since 1880
- 32,252people given the name
The story in the numbers
32,252 girls have been named Luella in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 949 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1923, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 83 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Luella | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,384 | |
| 1890s | 2,151 | |
| 1900s | 2,895 | |
| 1910s | 6,648 | |
| 1920s | 7,642 | |
| 1930s | 4,100 | |
| 1940s | 1,905 | |
| 1950s | 947 | |
| 1960s | 502 | |
| 1970s | 212 | |
| 1980s | 132 | |
| 1990s | 100 | |
| 2000s | 395 | |
| 2010s | 1,811 | |
| 2020s | 1,428 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Luella was the 203rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Luella
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Edithpeak 1918
- Althapeak 1917
- Elmirapeak 1921
- Elvinapeak 1920
- Lavinapeak 1920
- Edythpeak 1918
- Nellpeak 1917
- Henriettapeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.