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Lugene

Lugene is a boy's name that peaked in 1947, when it was the 1,646th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 1982. About 670 Lugenes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 69.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

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Girls and boys called Lugene

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

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Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 665 girls and 747 boys in all, and in 1960 the split was 24 to 13.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 16 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
1,412
Estimated living today
670
Median age today
69
Peak year
1947
Best rank
1,646th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1900
Girls / boys
665 / 747

How old the living Lugenes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,412 babies given the name since 1900, about 670 are alive — 47 in every hundred. Roughly 0 of them are children and 540 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1956 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.

Where Lugene is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Lugene is most concentrated in Mississippi (12.3×), Pennsylvania (6.8×), New York (1.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1947

The most popular boys’ names the year Lugene peaked:

All the names of 1947

Related names

Lugene 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.