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Lucilla

The girl's name Lucilla has been in the national records since 1898, with 957 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 8,860th. About 570 Lucillas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 52.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Lucilla

By the numbers

Total US births
957
Estimated living today
570
Median age today
52
Peak year
1955
Best rank
2,553rd
Rank in 2025
8,860th
First recorded
1898

How old the living Lucillas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 957 babies given the name since 1898, about 570 are alive — 60 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1973 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

From feminine diminutive form of the praenomen Lūcius.

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

Notable Lucillas

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

Where Lucilla is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Lucilla is most concentrated in Texas (11.8×).

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

Names of 1955

The most popular girls’ names the year Lucilla peaked:

All the names of 1955

Lucilla elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Italy girls Lucilla 1,263
France girls Lucilla 30 6,703rd
England and Wales girls Lucilla 3 5,785th
Ireland girls Lucilla 3 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.

Lucilla: rank by region

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

Region Spelling Place Children
Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste Lucilla 8 1

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Italy after 10 names – 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.

Lucilla 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.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Lucilla 9

A count of people on a register – 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.

Related names

Lucilla 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.