How rare is the name Luella?

7,137 people in the United States have the first name Luella, about 1 in 42,319. It ranks #3,090 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

LUELLA

#3,090

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
7,137
About
1 in 42,319
This common or more
81.6%
Who bears it

Of the 7,137 people named Luella, 78.1% reported their origin as White, 12.1% as Black and 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Luella peaked in 1918, when 949 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1918
Births that year
949
In 2025*
349 ▼63%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 32,621 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Luella by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1900s, when it ranked #259. The largest share of babies named Luella, 47.8%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#2601,384
1890s#2692,151
1900s#2592,895
1910s#3636,653
1920s#4197,653
1930s#5774,100
1940s#9901,905
1950s#1,727947
1960s#2,607502
1970s#5,152212
1980s#8,377132
1990s#12,979100
2000s#6,292395
2010s#2,3581,811
2020s#1,6981,781
Before 190111.7%
Greatest Generation 1901–2747.8%
Silent Generation 1928–4520.4%
Baby boom 1946–645.9%
Generation X 1965–801.3%
Millennials 1981–960.6%
Generation Z 1997–122.2%
2013 and later10.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Luella is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Luella has been most common in North Dakota (10×), South Dakota (6.6×), and Minnesota (4.2×), and least common in New Jersey (0.09×).

22,113 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Luella

#3,087 Tamar · 7,142#3,089 Korbin · 7,141#3,091 Lars · 7,136#3,091 Ward · 7,136

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