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Lughan

Lughan was the #344 boys' name in Northern Ireland in 2025 (4 babies).

Lughan as a boy’s name

  • England & Wales
  • Northern Ireland
  • Ireland
Lughan as a boy’s name, England & Wales, Northern Ireland, IrelandBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1964–2025, for England & Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.00.250.50.751197019801990200020102020Northern IrelandIreland
Lughan as a boy’s name, England & Wales, Northern Ireland, IrelandBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1964–2025, for England & Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.00.250.50.751198020002020
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list. In Ireland, the line follows the most-used spelling each year: Lughan to 2024, Lughán from 2025. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.
Show the numbers
YearEngland & WalesNorthern IrelandIreland
2025—#344 (4)#676 (4)
2024——#655 (4)
2023—#395 (3)—
2021—#374 (4)#755 (3)
2018—#283 (6)—
2017——#547 (5)
2016——#713 (3)
2010#4,678 (3)——

The tide so far

  • Peaked in Northern Ireland in 2018 at #283.
  • First recorded in Northern Ireland in 2018.

How common is it?

about 1 in 2,100 baby boys in the published Northern Ireland list for 2025.

In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet fewer than 1. How we work this out.

How common, country by country

WhereSexLatest yearShareVerdict
Northern IrelandBoys2025about 1 in 2,100uncommon
IrelandBoys2025about 1 in 5,900uncommon

Spellings

Official statistics count each spelling separately, so we show them side by side rather than adding them up.

SpellingWhereSexLatest rankBabies
LughanEngland & WalesBoys—too few
LughánIrelandBoys#6764
LughanIrelandBoys—too few
LughanNorthern IrelandBoys#3444