Luci
Luci was given to 59 girls in 2025, #2,877 among girls’ names; 2,865 Americans have been recorded with it since 1937 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,720 Americans named Luci and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 11 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Luci by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Luci mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Luci is “a female given name from Latin.” Its etymology gives the sense “light” (lux).
A modern nonstandard spelling of Lucy, from Lucia, from the Latin feminine form of the Latin praenomen Lucius, from lux “light”.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Luci?
#2,877 among girls’ names, 2025
Luci fell from #2,764 in 2015 to #2,877 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 35.9 to 36.7 per million.
95 babies in 2010, the peak
Luci peaked in 2010, when 95 girls were given it, #2,084 among girls’ names. The 59 births of 2025 are 62% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | #2,877 | 36.7 |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,878 | 35.8 |
| 2023 | 68 | #2,604 | 42.4 |
| 2022 | 61 | #2,809 | 37.2 |
| 2021 | 83 | #2,244 | 50.6 |
| 2020 | 82 | #2,211 | 50.7 |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,583 | 40.5 |
| 2018 | 74 | #2,426 | 43.5 |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,734 | 36.5 |
| 2016 | 68 | #2,610 | 38.4 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 64 | #2,764 | 35.9 |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,765 | 35.3 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,861 | 34.2 |
| 2012 | 60 | #2,888 | 34.1 |
| 2011 | 80 | #2,339 | 45.5 |
| 2010 | 95 | #2,084 | 53.4 |
| 2009 | 82 | #2,365 | 44.6 |
| 2008 | 72 | #2,603 | 38.1 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,810 | 33.8 |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,959 | 30.5 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,805 | 31.9 |
| 2004 | 50 | #3,106 | 27.2 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,779 | 20.3 |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,041 | 26.7 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,929 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,414 | 11.6 |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,030 | 16.3 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,734 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,767 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,385 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,616 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,260 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,104 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,178 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,415 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,793 | 10.5 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,966 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,118 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,113 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,648 | 9.9 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,285 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,728 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,798 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,854 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,580 | 13.8 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,375 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,615 | 13.7 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,575 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,158 | 11.1 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,787 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,866 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,801 | 17.7 |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,602 | 19.2 |
| 1972 | 22 | #3,018 | 14.5 |
| 1971 | 43 | #1,988 | 25.8 |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,336 | 18.9 |
| 1969 | 48 | #1,770 | 28.5 |
| 1968 | 54 | #1,567 | 32.9 |
| 1967 | 70 | #1,312 | 42.4 |
| 1966 | 78 | #1,219 | 46.1 |
| 1965 | 81 | #1,197 | 45.9 |
| 1964 | 42 | #1,822 | 22.2 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,159 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,126 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,707 | 6.4 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,605 | 6.4 |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,715 | 9.4 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,658 | 6.0 |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,458 | 10.8 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,259 | 7.0 |
| 1955 | 19 | #2,599 | 9.7 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,658 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 25 | #2,101 | 13.3 |
| 1952 | 32 | #1,762 | 17.3 |
| 1951 | 25 | #1,997 | 13.9 |
| 1950 | 22 | #2,090 | 12.8 |
| 1949 | 19 | #2,308 | 11.1 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,070 | 3.6 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,647 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Luci a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Luci has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 79 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Luci: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Luci, and how old are they?
2,720 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 2,865 Americans ever recorded as Luci. The median Luci alive today is 20 years old; half are between 11 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 3,267 people named Luci (3,232 women and girls, 35 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,375 born in the U.S. The Census count is 38% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Luci rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 249 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 542 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 251 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 812 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 866 |
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 Luci born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #3,151 | 0.5× |
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 Luci with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 307,857 babies since 1880, Luci is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 59 of their 9,480 babies (<1%), again the fourth most given.
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 Luci
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 Luci and names like it
- Compare Luci and LucyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLuci peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Luci since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Luci: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Luci.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Luci alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.