Lucky
Feminine · “fortunate”
Lucky is given to both — 602 girls and 3,624 boys since 1880. See Lucky as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Lucky is the English word, and luck itself is a late borrowing — English took it from Dutch gamblers in the fifteenth century and had no word of its own before that.
How old is the name Lucky?
Lucky first appears in US birth records in 1921 — 104 years ago. The typical Lucky alive today was born around 2002, making them about 23 years old. About 500 people named Lucky are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lucky most popular?
Lucky peaked in 1943, reaching #2558 nationally. Today it ranks #4172, 1,614 places below that high. See the whole 1943 chart.
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Where it comes from
From luk to Lucky
The story of Lucky
That English had no native word for luck until the fifteenth century is a genuine curiosity — earlier writers used hap, which survives in happen and perhaps, or wyrd, which meant something closer to fate. Luck arrived from the Low Countries with card and dice games. As a given name Lucky appears in American records for both sexes from the 1930s, usually as a registered nickname.
Meaning
fortunate
From Middle Dutch luk, a shortening of gheluc, happiness or fortune; English borrowed it in the fifteenth century, apparently through gaming, and had previously used words like hap and speed for the same idea.
How the name formed
- luk
- luck
- Lucky
Related forms: Geluk · Glück
Pronouncing Lucky
LUK-ee
Two syllables, first stressed. There is no variation in English.
Nicknames for Lucky
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1921
- Most girls named
- 202534 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2558reached in 1943
- Change vs 2024
- +36.0%34 in 2025, from 25
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Lucky in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Geluk in Dutch — related form
- Glück in German — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California.
Luckys among us
people named Lucky are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 47,273 born in 2025 was named Lucky
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Anola test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Lucky's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Anola climbed just as high around 1917, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Anola's path sketches the road Lucky is walking now.
Lucky sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Lucky is headed
Lucky looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 41% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Lucky beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Lucky in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- An ordinary English word, so nobody has to be taught to say or spell it.
- The word's late arrival in English is a genuinely good fact.
- Warm and immediately friendly in sound.
- It is used for both sexes and reads as a nickname to most people.
- It names a condition rather than a quality, which strangers will remark on.
- It is very commonly a dog's name, which will be mentioned.
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Feminine · #4172 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Luckys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Lucky are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lucky in 2025?
- Lucky ranks #4172 among US girl names in 2025, with 34 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Lucky?
- About 1 in every 47,273 US girls born in 2025 was named Lucky — 34 in all.
- Will my child share the name Lucky with classmates?
- Lucky will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Lucky
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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