Lunie
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Meaning & Origin of Lunie
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Known Space is the fictional setting of about a dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories by American writer Larry Niven. It has also become a shared universe in the spin-off Man-Kzin Wars anthologies.
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The Story of Lunie
Lunie first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1897, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1897: 5 births, good for #1,555 nationwide. About 50% of every Lunie on record arrived during the 1890s, its defining decade. Lunie last appeared in the published SSA data in 1916, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 10 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1890s to the 2020s.
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About the name Lunie
Lunie is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1897 and has accumulated 10 births in the dataset. Lunie's peak popularity came in 1897 when it ranked #1,555. Use the chart and map above to compare Lunie's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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