Lucian

What Lucian means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Lucian yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #633 in 2015 to #462 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Lucian?

US: Rising: up from #633 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #450 in 2015, #452 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 670 boys got the name (#462 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 2,549 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,199 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,928 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in OR (1.33 per 1,000 boys), NM (1.23 per 1,000 boys), OK (0.79 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Lucian is #462 in the US and #452 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Lucian were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

Wiktionary only lists the UK pronunciation so far.

IPA from Wiktionary.

If you like Lucian

Boys

• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*
• Lucas#10Editor’s note Up from #16 in 2015 to #10 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 170 US boys in the 2025 records
• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*
• Titus#358“honorable”^*
• Cassius#582Editor’s note Up from #644 in 2015 to #582 in 2025 in the US
• Roman#42Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #42 in 2025

For a sister

• Liliana#78Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Lucy#24“light”^*
• Stella#52“star”^*
• Arabella#213Editor’s note Steady in the US: #194 in 2015 and #213 in 2025
• Valentina#35Same root as Valentine, meaning “strong, healthy”^*
• Lucille#237Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 7,989 babies; 1,314 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Latin, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Lucian’s. Rank is US 2025.