Lucile
Lucile is a girl's name that peaked in 1917, when it was the 142nd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 4,987th. About 3,300 Luciles are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 75.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lucile boys named Lucile
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 34,983
- Estimated living today
- 3,300
- Median age today
- 75
- Peak year
- 1917
- Best rank
- 142nd
- Rank in 2025
- 4,987th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 34,887 / 96
How old the living Luciles are
born that year still alive today
Of the 34,983 babies given the name since 1880, about 3,300 are alive — 9 in every hundred. Roughly 550 of them are children and 2,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1950 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
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Luciles
- Lucile Randon (1904–2023)French Catholic sister and supercentenarian
- Lucile Watson (1879–1962)Canadian actress
- Lucile Grahn (1819–1907)Danish ballet dancer
- Lucile Hadžihalilović (born 1961)French film director, film editor and screenwriter
- Lucile Desmoulins (1770–1794)French revolutionary
- Lucile Browne (1907–1976)American actress
People named Lucile with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lucile is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lucile is most concentrated in Alabama (6.2×), South Carolina (6.0×), Georgia (5.6×), Mississippi (4.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1917
The most popular girls’ names the year Lucile peaked:
Lucile elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Lucile | 37,775 | 68th |
| Belgium girls | Lucile | 621 | 243rd |
| Switzerland girls | Lucile | 138 | 562nd |
| France boys | Lucile | 35 | 868th |
| England and Wales girls | Lucile | 25 | 4,171st |
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.
Lucile: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Lucile | 14 | 0.001% | 992nd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Lucile | 124 | 0.028% | 181st |
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, Lucile is most concentrated in Fribourg, where 0.04% of children were given it – 27 of them.
Lucile: rank by region
In 2025, Lucile was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Lucile | 416 | 12 |
| Wallonia | Lucile | 109 | 23 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Lucile appears in the lists for Province of Liège (91st), Province of Hainaut (153rd) and Province of East Flanders (171st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 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.
Related names
Lucile against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.