Larue
Larue reached its high-water mark in 1920 at number 590, and has been recorded 5,520 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 10,917th. About 1,700 Larues are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 71.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Larue boys named Larue
Girls and boys called Larue
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Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 3,980 girls and 1,540 boys in all, and in 1966 the split was 17 to 11.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 54 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,520
- Estimated living today
- 1,700
- Median age today
- 71
- Peak year
- 1920
- Best rank
- 590th
- Rank in 2025
- 10,917th
- First recorded
- 1893
- Girls / boys
- 3,980 / 1,540
How old the living Larues are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,520 babies given the name since 1893, about 1,700 are alive — 30 in every hundred. Roughly 160 of them are children and 1,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1954 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Larues
- LaRue Martin (born 1950)American basketball player
People named Larue with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Larue is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Larue is most concentrated in Utah (22.7×), Idaho (11.8×), Pennsylvania (8.6×), North Carolina (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1920
The most popular girls’ names the year Larue peaked:
Related names
Larue against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.