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Luanna vs Luanne

American parents have registered 8,617 Luannes since 1880, against 1,943 Luannas. But in 2025 it was Luanna that was commoner, 16 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Luanna against Luanne, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Luanna Luanne

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 122 years in which either name was published, Luanne for 64 years and Luanna for 58 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Luanna Luanne
Total US births 1,9438,617
Most in one year 59588
Babies in 2025 16under 5
Estimated living today 1,4006,700
Median age today 5667
Peak year 19601954
Best rank 1,430th girls356th girls
Rank in 2025 6,838thunranked
First recorded 18881924
Girls / boys 1,943 / 08,617 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Luannes alive today are over 67; half the Luannas are over 56. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Luanna Luanne
France 7080
England and Wales 607

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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