Lucila
Lucila reached its high-water mark in 1982 at number 2,414, and has been recorded 2,483 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 5,238th. About 2,000 Lucilas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 41.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lucila
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,483
- Estimated living today
- 2,000
- Median age today
- 41
- Peak year
- 1982
- Best rank
- 2,414th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,238th
- First recorded
- 1914
How old the living Lucilas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,483 babies given the name since 1914, about 2,000 are alive — 81 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1984 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.
Notable Lucilas
- Lucila Gamero Medina (1873–1964)Honduran writer
- Lucila Pascua (born 1983)Spanish basketball player
People named Lucila with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lucila is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lucila is most concentrated in Texas (7.0×), California (4.2×), Illinois (0.3×), New York (0.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1982
The most popular girls’ names the year Lucila peaked:
Lucila elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Lucila | 20 | 7,466th |
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.
Where Lucila lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 2,308 women called Lucila 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
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ourense | Lucila | 56 | 0.353 | 331 |
| Soria | Lucila | 14 | 0.316 | 335 |
| Burgos | Lucila | 57 | 0.315 | 346 |
| Segovia | Lucila | 22 | 0.279 | 369 |
| Cáceres | Lucila | 52 | 0.265 | 425 |
| Ávila | Lucila | 21 | 0.263 | 396 |
Listed in 48 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 4 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Lucila against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.