Lucille

What Lucille means

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

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 7,989 babies; 1,314 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Lucille?

US: Rising: up from #286 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #1649 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1915, when 7,006 girls got the name (#29 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 1,223 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 28,142 baby girls in England and Wales 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 VT (7.19 per 1,000 girls), WY (6.17 per 1,000 girls), SD (3.28 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Lucille is #237 in the US and #2788 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Lucille were girls.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Lucile26 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Lucile

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Lucille

Girls

• Valentina#35Same root as Valentine, meaning “strong, healthy”^*
• Genevieve#148possibly “kin, family + woman, wife”^*
• Clara#63“bright, shining, clear”^*
• Charlotte#2Form of Charles, meaning “free man”^*
• Camilla#361Editor’s note Up from #374 in 2015 to #361 in 2025 in the US
• Vivienne#172Variant of Vivian, possibly meaning “alive”^*

For a brother

• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*
• Roman#42Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #42 in 2025
• 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
• Cassius#582Editor’s note Up from #644 in 2015 to #582 in 2025 in the US
• Leo#19“lion”^*
• Bennett#40Form of Benedict, meaning “blessed, well spoken of”^*

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