Luan
Luan is a boy's name that peaked in 2025, when it was the 1,217th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 1,217th. About 1,400 Luans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Luan
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Luan crossed from girls to boys in 2016, and has stayed there for 10 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% boys, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 14 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
- 1,622
- Estimated living today
- 1,400
- Median age today
- 11
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 1,217th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,217th
- First recorded
- 1926
- Girls / boys
- 515 / 1,107
How old the living Luans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,622 babies given the name since 1926, about 1,400 are alive — 89 in every hundred. Roughly 810 of them are children and 270 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 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 Luans
- Luan Vieira (born 1993)Brazilian footballer
- Luan Santana (born 1991)Brazilian singer-songwriter
- Luan Garcia Teixeira (born 1993)Brazilian footballer
- Jujie Luan (born 1958)fencer
- Luan Rodrigues Azambuja (born 1996)Brazilian association football player
- Luan Krasniqi (born 1971)German boxer
- Luan Madson Gedeão de Paiva (born 1990)Brazilian association football player
- Luan Peres Petroni (born 1994)Brazilian association football player
People named Luan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Luan is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Luan is most concentrated in Florida (4.7×), Massachusetts (3.8×), New York (2.4×), New Jersey (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Luan peaked:
Luan elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland boys | Luan | 2,675 | 27th |
| France boys | Luan +1 spelling | 900 | 822nd |
| England and Wales boys | Luan | 561 | 556th |
| Belgium boys | Luan | 466 | 212th |
| Ireland boys | Luan +2 spellings | 197 | 240th |
| France girls | Luan | 135 | 1,349th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Luan | 81 | 154th |
| Poland boys | Luan | 12 birth registrations | 594th |
| Scotland boys | Luan | 11 | 522nd |
| Scotland girls | Luan | 7 | 429th |
| England and Wales girls | Luan | 4 | 3,142nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Luan: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Luan | 2,361 | 0.190% | 24th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Luan | 287 | 0.066% | 87th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Luan | 19 | 0.029% | 116th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Luan | 8 | 0.215% | 3rd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Luan is most concentrated in Bern, where 0.26% of children were given it – 528 of them.
Luan: rank by region
In 2025, Luan was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Luan | 161 | 36 |
| Wallonia | Luan | 267 | 10 |
| Brussels | Luan | 265 | 5 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Luan appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (76th), Province of East Flanders (118th), Province of Liège (147th), Province of Flemish Brabant (218th), Province of Antwerp (251st) and Brussels-Capital Region (265th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Luan by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 182 | 106th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Luan among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Luan | 35 | 56 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Luan lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 395 men called Luan were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ourense | Luan | 6 | 0.041 | 1,056 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Luan | 12 | 0.038 | 1,451 |
| Balears, Illes | Luan | 23 | 0.037 | 1,550 |
| Pontevedra | Luan | 17 | 0.037 | 1,093 |
| Gipuzkoa | Luan | 12 | 0.033 | 1,367 |
| León | Luan | 7 | 0.032 | 1,309 |
Listed in 23 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 29 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Luan against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.