Lue
7,169 recorded births · active 1880–2013
Compare Lue →Living-age distribution
The median living Lue is 75. If you meet a Lue, there's about a 70% chance they're between 59 and 87 years old.
Popularity arc
Peak Lue: 1886. Down 100% from peak.
Gender balance
15.6% male, 84.4% female.
Among males: median age 41 (31–78). Among females: median age 77 (66–88).
Rarity
Lue ranks #3,385 out of 105,966 names ever recorded by the SSA.
Geographic fingerprint
Lues are 2.1x more common in the South than the national average.
Predictive modeling
Three statistical models, all fit to Lue's own SSA history plus the historical behavior of every other name in the dataset.
Peak popularity prediction
Lue's modeled peak was #561 in 1886 — its trend isn't projected to beat that.
Not enough continuous recent history to project a peak rank.
Name life-cycle stage
A rule-based classifier over recent growth, momentum, and peak proximity.
Lue hasn't shown up in SSA records since 2013 — fewer than 5 babies have gotten the name in any year since, which is below what the SSA even reports.
Popularity survival model
Once a name reaches a rank tier, how long does it typically stay there before falling out?
Built from a Kaplan-Meier survival curve: every historical run any name has ever had above this tier, with runs still ongoing today counted as still in progress rather than as an exit.Lue isn't currently in the Top 100 tier. Estimated chance of entering it in the forecast window: 0%.
If Lue enters Top 100, chance it's still there after:
Names that do enter Top 100 have historically stayed a median of ~19 years. Based on 668 historical Top 100 runs across every name in the dataset.