Lucetta
Lucetta was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,325 among girls’ names; 563 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lucetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lucetta mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lucetta is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lucetta?
#16,325 among girls’ names, 2025
Lucetta entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #16,325 in 2025.
22 babies in 1916, the peak
Lucetta peaked in 1916, when 22 girls were given it, #1,658 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,325 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,716 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,742 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,271 | 4.1 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,608 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,139 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,819 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,563 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,495 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,844 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 6 | #5,269 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,635 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,774 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,302 | 6.4 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,693 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,897 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,554 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,955 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,975 | 3.8 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,599 | 5.9 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,479 | 10.8 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,875 | 8.7 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,846 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,067 | 8.5 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,586 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,663 | 10.5 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,622 | 6.9 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,179 | 8.4 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,152 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,334 | 5.3 |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,064 | 15.2 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,458 | 12.1 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,443 | 7.5 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,766 | 6.7 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,082 | 15.6 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,612 | 11.2 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,325 | 13.3 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,274 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,720 | 10.5 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,243 | 8.3 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,334 | 13.3 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,449 | 12.1 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,268 | 13.9 |
| 1916 | 22 | #1,658 | 21.1 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,477 | 12.2 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,550 | 11.8 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,256 | 14.4 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,831 | 10.8 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,582 | 25.2 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,118 | 17.3 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,248 | 15.7 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,858 | 20.3 |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,488 | 27.4 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,581 | 25.4 |
| 1903 | 10 | #1,177 | 38.2 |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,181 | 37.9 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,665 | 23.4 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,744 | 21.5 |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,224 | 34.8 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,732 | 21.0 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,521 | 25.7 |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,108 | 40.4 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,439 | 26.3 |
| 1882 | 6 | #864 | 55.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lucetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lucetta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lucetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lucetta, and how old are they?
An estimated 124 Americans named Lucetta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (22% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 65 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 241 people named Lucetta (241 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 148 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,130 babies since 1880, Lucetta is the most given (50% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lucetta
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 Lucetta and names like it
- Compare Lucetta and LucetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sLucetta peaked in 1916.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lucetta since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Lucetta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lucetta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.