Lucretia
Lucretia is a girl's name that peaked in 1974, when it was the 746th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 10,917th. About 6,200 Lucretias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 58.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lucretia
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 10,430
- Estimated living today
- 6,200
- Median age today
- 58
- Peak year
- 1974
- Best rank
- 746th
- Rank in 2025
- 10,917th
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Lucretias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 10,430 babies given the name since 1880, about 6,200 are alive — 59 in every hundred. Roughly 60 of them are children and 2,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1967 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
Originally. Many people with the given name have no doubt been named after others so named, not necessarily after the 6th-century-BC Roman noblewoman.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Lucretias
- Lucretia Mott (1793–1880)American suffragist
- Lucretia Garfield (1832–1918)First Lady of the United States from 1881 to 1881
People named Lucretia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lucretia is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lucretia is most concentrated in Alabama (2.9×), South Carolina (2.6×), Oklahoma (2.2×), Georgia (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1974
The most popular girls’ names the year Lucretia peaked:
Lucretia elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Lucretia | 18 | 3,197th |
| France girls | Lucretia | 5 | 7,001st |
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 Lucretia lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 297 women called Lucretia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cuenca | Lucretia | 10 | 0.101 | 724 |
| Almería | Lucretia | 26 | 0.069 | 1,031 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Lucretia | 14 | 0.044 | 1,344 |
| Guadalajara | Lucretia | 6 | 0.043 | 1,247 |
| Huelva | Lucretia | 8 | 0.029 | 1,565 |
| Toledo | Lucretia | 9 | 0.024 | 1,770 |
Listed in 17 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 35 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
Lucretia 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.