Thirty years of Luna
Luna in numbers
Luna has risen from 5 girls in 1996 to 757 in 2025, though it is below its peak of 1,261 in 2021. Its biggest three-year rise came between 2015 and 2018, from 439 to 1,162. It ranked 2,683rd in 1996, reached 34th in 2022 and ranks 59th now. On average it was given to 33 girls a year in the 2000s, 557 in the 2010s and 1,063 in the 2020s so far.
† Shapes, averages and turning points are Baby Data calculations from the ONS counts.
Milestones
First year in each bandChange
- On last year-17%908 to 757
- 5 years-38%1,216 to 757
- 10 years+72%439 to 757
- 20 years+3,054%24 to 757
- Since 1996×1515 to 757
- Total, 1996 to 202512,300girls
† All changes and totals are Baby Data calculations from ONS counts. A total adds only the published years.
Across the three nations, 2025
Each from its own statistics office, never added togetherRank 59 · ONS · 908 in 2024
Rank 106 · NRS · 43 in 2024
Rank 177 · NISRA · 13 in 2024
England and Wales (ONS) count births in the calendar year; Scotland (NRS) and Northern Ireland (NISRA) count births registered in the year. Each comes from its own statistics office and they are never added together.
Year by year, 1996 to 2025 Show all 30 yearsHide the table
| Year | Rank | Babies | Change† | 1 in X† |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | =59 | 757 | -17% | 1 in 376 |
| 2024 | 48 | 908 | -15% | 1 in 319 |
| 2023 | 38 | 1,063 | -9% | 1 in 271 |
| 2022 | 34 | 1,174 | -7% | 1 in 251 |
| 2021 | 35 | 1,261 | +4% | 1 in 242 |
| 2020 | 36 | 1,216 | +0% | 1 in 246 |
| 2019 | 36 | 1,213 | +4% | 1 in 257 |
| 2018 | 43 | 1,162 | +6% | 1 in 275 |
| 2017 | 48 | 1,093 | +53% | 1 in 303 |
| 2016 | 78 | 715 | +63% | 1 in 474 |
| 2015 | 130 | 439 | +16% | 1 in 774 |
| 2014 | 146 | 380 | +70% | 1 in 891 |
| 2013 * | 225 | 224 | +56% | 1 in 1,524 |
| 2012 | =337 | 144 | +16% | 1 in 2,467 |
| 2011 | =376 | 124 | +63% | 1 in 2,846 |
| 2010 | =526 | 76 | +12% | 1 in 4,634 |
| 2009 | =565 | 68 | +5% | 1 in 5,060 |
| 2008 | =580 | 65 | +35% | 1 in 5,319 |
| 2007 | =706 | 48 | -4% | 1 in 6,990 |
| 2006 | =639 | 50 | +108% | 1 in 6,543 |
| 2005 | =1,045 | 24 | +33% | 1 in 13,134 |
| 2004 | =1,252 | 18 | +0% | 1 in 17,298 |
| 2003 | =1,224 | 18 | +13% | 1 in 16,835 |
| 2002 | =1,245 | 16 | +78% | 1 in 18,128 |
| 2001 | =1,870 | 9 | -25% | 1 in 32,220 |
| 2000 | =1,475 | 12 | +9% | 1 in 24,567 |
| 1999 | =1,557 | 11 | +57% | 1 in 27,510 |
| 1998 | =2,165 | 7 | n/a | |
| 1997 | n/a | under 3 | ||
| 1996 | =2,683 | 5 | 1 in 63,197 |
* ONS’s girls’ 2013 file repeats the May total as April, so the 2013 births total is about 1,360 too high and 1 in X for 2013 is slightly too high. 1 in X is not shown for girls in 1998: one monthly total is missing from the ONS girls’ 1998 file. Rank follows ONS: names with the same count share a rank (shown with =). “Under 3” means the name was given to fewer than 3 babies that year, so ONS did not publish it.
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Source: Office for National Statistics, Baby names in England and Wales, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; National Records of Scotland; NISRA. Exact spellings are counted separately and names given to fewer than 3 babies are not published. Figures marked † are Baby Data calculations. How we calculate
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