Girl · Latin
Lucia
Say it: loo-CHEE-uh
Meaning
Feminine of Lucius, which Roman writers linked to lux 'light'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Spread throughout Europe by the cult of St. Lucy; Lucía has been among the top names in modern Spain.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 46,998 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 2019, about 1 in 921 girls
- 1,724 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- Ancient Rome750 BC to AD 476
- The Early Middle Ages400 to 800
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
LatinEarly ChristianItalianSpanishEnglishFrenchSwedishPortugueseMexicanCentral AmericanAndeanArgentineCaribbean
The family of the name
| English | Lucy |
|---|---|
| French | Lucie |
| Spanish | Lucía |
| Portuguese | Lúcia |
| Polish | Łucja |
| Swedish | Lucia |
| Portuguese | Luzia |
Famous bearers
- St. Lucy of Syracuse, martyr
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Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- Calendars of saints and name days
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- Parish baptism registers
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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