Lucia

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Lucia boys named Lucia

By the numbers

Total US births

59,426

Estimated living today

52,000

Median age today

13

Peak year

2025

Best rank

83rd

Rank in 2025

83rd

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

59,335 / 91

How old the living Lucias are

born that year still alive today

Of the 59,426 babies given the name since 1880, about 52,000 are alive — 88 in every hundred. Roughly 31,000 of them are children and 3,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Latin

Latinate variant of Lucy, or today borrowed from modern Italian. Name of a Sicilian martyr, feminine form of the Roman praenomen Lūcius.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Lucias

• Lucía Etxebarria (born 1966)Spanish writer
• Lucia Bose (1931–2020)Italian-born Spanish actress
• Sister Lúcia (1907–2005)Portuguese nun, one of the three children who have witnessed Marian apparitions in Fátima, Portugal, in 1917
• Lucía Sánchez Saornil (1895–1970)Spanish poet, journalist, sindicalist, anarchist and feminist
• Lucia Popp (1939–1993)Slovak operatic soprano
• Lucia Berlin (1936–2004)American writer
• Lucía Puenzo (born 1976)Argentine writer and film director
• Lúcia Moniz (born 1976)singer, actress

People named Lucia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Lucia is most common

• CA11,172
• TX8,446
• NY4,833
• FL3,181
• IL2,739
• NJ1,931
• PA1,873
• MA1,692
• AZ1,415
• OH1,269

Relative to how many babies each state records, Lucia is most concentrated in New Mexico (2.4×), Arizona (2.1×), California (2.1×), Texas (2.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2025

The most popular girls’ names the year Lucia peaked:

• Olivia
• Charlotte
• Emma
• Amelia
• Sophia
• Mia

All the names of 2025

Lucia elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Lucia: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Lucia is most concentrated in Basel-Stadt, where 0.12% of children were given it – 46 of them.

Lucia: rank by region

In 2025, Lucia was given 5 times or more in 4 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Lucia was among the 10 most common names in 16 regions of Spain, and first in 5 of them. It has come first somewhere in 23 different years.

In 2023, Lucia was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Lucia was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Lucia appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (51st), Province of Namur (68th), Brussels-Capital Region (107th), Province of Limburg (138th), Province of Liège (138th), Province of Antwerp (204th) and Province of East Flanders (214th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Lucia by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Lucia among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Lucia lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 222,807 women called Lucia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Lucas
• Lucy
• Lucille
• Luca
• Lucinda
• Lucile
• Luciano
• Luciana
• Lucian
• Lucretia
• Lucius
• Lucien

Lucia against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Lucia vs Lucas
• Lucia vs Lucy
• Lucia vs Lucille
• Lucia vs Luca
• Lucia vs Lucinda
• Lucia vs Lucile

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