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Luna vs Lundyn

American parents have registered 87,834 Lunas since 1880, against 973 Lundyns. Luna is still ahead, with 6,085 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Luna against Lundyn, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Luna Lundyn

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

Luna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1992, when Luna had 22 and Lundyn had 7.

Side by side

  Luna Lundyn
Total US births 87,834973
Most in one year 8,99281
Babies in 2025 6,08511
Estimated living today 86,000970
Median age today 514
Peak year 20222011
Best rank 10th girls2,298th girls
Rank in 2025 27th8,860th
First recorded 18801992
Girls / boys 87,715 / 119967 / 6

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 Lundyns alive today are over 14; half the Lunas are over 5. That is 9 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.

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