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Lutie vs Lutrelle

American parents have registered 735 Luties since 1880, against 9 Lutrelles. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lutie against Lutrelle, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lutie Lutrelle

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

Lutie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 1954. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1917, when Lutie had 9 and Lutrelle had 9.

Side by side

  Lutie Lutrelle
Total US births 7359
Most in one year 309
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 300
Median age today 84108
Peak year 18911917
Best rank 471st girls3,092nd girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18801917
Girls / boys 735 / 09 / 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 Lutrelles alive today are over 108; half the Luties are over 84. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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