Lua

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Lua: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

3registrars recorded it
21times a registrar ranked it
19years from first to last
#424highest recorded position

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2007–2025

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2007	#5201
2008	#5545
2009	#2759
2011	#5785
2012	#5876
2015	#2328
2016	#3214
2017	#2925
2018	#1977
2019	#2458
2020	#1773
2021	#2499
2022	#1948
2023	#1575
2024	#1672
2025	#1512

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 16 of the 19 years from 2007 to 2025.

In 2025: #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1512 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2007–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2007
First recorded at #5201 among girls in England and Wales in 2007 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #1512 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Lua appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 16 years beginning in 2007, and has registered 167 births with the name.

Lua across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Lua's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#5201 (2007)	#1512 (2025)	#1512 (2025)	16 of 19	167 (2007–2025)	20 (2025)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#677 (2012)	#677 (2012)	#718 (2025)	4 of 14	16 (2012–2025)	5 (2012)

Lua by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Lua in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	14	3 of 10	5
2010s	56	7 of 10	8
2020sbusiest	97	6 of 10	16

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 16 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2007 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #424 in Northern Ireland in 2019.

Lua's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	female	#1512	20	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#1672	18	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1575	19	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1948	14	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1773	16	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2458	10	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1977	14	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2925	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3214	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2328	11	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2759	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Lua was ranked #424 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2019. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Abaigh#424
Aideen#424
Aisling#424
Alayna#424

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2007 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #424 in Northern Ireland in 2019. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Lua

Lua at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Lua across 2 official records

Lua by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Popularity data

Names published alongside Lua

Lua at a glance

Lua across 2 official records

Lua by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Names published alongside Lua