Lucero
Lucero was given to 141 girls in 2025, #1,515 among girls’ names; 7,947 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,830 Americans named Lucero and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 15 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lucero by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lucero?
#1,515 among girls’ names, 2025
Lucero rose from #1,820 in 2015 to #1,515 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 64.4 to 87.7 per million.
350 babies in 1994, the peak
Lucero peaked in 1994, when 350 babies were given it (334 girls, #647 among girls’ names). The 147 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 42% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 141 | #1,515 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 123 | #1,671 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 150 | #1,468 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 146 | #1,495 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 127 | #1,646 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 125 | #1,652 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 119 | #1,742 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 143 | #1,528 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 137 | #1,598 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 134 | #1,632 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 115 | #1,820 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 125 | #1,688 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 166 | #1,395 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 164 | #1,407 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 197 | #1,222 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 215 | #1,141 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 249 | #1,046 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 243 | #1,078 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 284 | #957 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 268 | #975 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 254 | #968 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 173 | #1,255 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 195 | #1,128 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 209 | #1,036 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 186 | #1,128 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 194 | #1,068 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 192 | #1,054 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 243 | #869 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 236 | #867 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 278 | #762 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 282 | #726 | 0.16 |
| 1994 | 334 | #647 | 0.19 |
| 1993 | 313 | #691 | 0.17 |
| 1992 | 264 | #779 | 0.14 |
| 1991 | 266 | #774 | 0.14 |
| 1990 | 227 | #865 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 114 | #1,350 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 34 | #3,008 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 48 | #2,253 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,655 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,340 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,474 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,204 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,456 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,198 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,079 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,498 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,855 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,717 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,492 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,022 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,589 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,053 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,952 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,594 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,134 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,138 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lucero a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,947 Americans recorded as Lucero, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 141 girls and 6 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lucero: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lucero, and how old are they?
7,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,947 Americans ever recorded as Lucero. The median Lucero alive today is 23 years old; half are between 15 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 9,788 people named Lucero (9,631 women and girls, 157 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,061 born in the U.S. The Census count is 39% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 129 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,530 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,770 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Lucero born?
The states with the most babies named Lucero are Texas, California and Florida, with 85% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 32 | #910 | 2.4× |
| California | 26 | #1,040 | 2.3× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,392 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 6 | #988 | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,376 | 0.7× |
Where Lucero is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lucero is most over-represented in Texas: since 1961 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lucero with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lucero
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lucero and names like it
- Compare Lucero and EssenceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sLucero peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lucero since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Lucero.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lucero alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.