Lucia
Lucia was given to 3,012 girls in 2025, #83 among girls’ names; 59,426 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 51,800 Americans named Lucia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 6 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lucia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lucia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lucia is “a female given name from Latin.”
Latinate variant of Lucy, or today borrowed from modern Italian. Name of a Sicilian martyr, Latin Lūcia, feminine form of the Roman praenomen Lūcius.
/luˈsiːə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lucia?
#83 among girls’ names, 2025
Lucia rose from #226 in 2015 to #83 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.81 to 1.9 per 1,000.
3,012 babies in 2025, the peak
Lucia peaked in 2025, when 3,012 girls were given it, #83 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 2,663 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,012 | #83 | 1.9 |
| 2024 | 2,663 | #98 | 1.6 |
| 2023 | 2,442 | #109 | 1.5 |
| 2022 | 2,222 | #126 | 1.4 |
| 2021 | 2,025 | #136 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | 1,753 | #160 | 1.1 |
| 2019 | 1,819 | #158 | 1.1 |
| 2018 | 1,612 | #183 | 0.95 |
| 2017 | 1,662 | #185 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 1,523 | #213 | 0.86 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,453 | #226 | 0.81 |
| 2014 | 1,436 | #231 | 0.80 |
| 2013 | 1,327 | #242 | 0.76 |
| 2012 | 1,304 | #248 | 0.74 |
| 2011 | 1,329 | #240 | 0.76 |
| 2010 | 1,239 | #266 | 0.70 |
| 2009 | 1,085 | #305 | 0.59 |
| 2008 | 1,099 | #303 | 0.58 |
| 2007 | 1,090 | #311 | 0.57 |
| 2006 | 977 | #338 | 0.51 |
| 2005 | 853 | #366 | 0.46 |
| 2004 | 741 | #413 | 0.40 |
| 2003 | 626 | #473 | 0.34 |
| 2002 | 524 | #523 | 0.29 |
| 2001 | 550 | #502 | 0.31 |
| 2000 | 552 | #490 | 0.30 |
| 1999 | 433 | #575 | 0.24 |
| 1998 | 370 | #630 | 0.21 |
| 1997 | 378 | #599 | 0.22 |
| 1996 | 400 | #576 | 0.23 |
| 1995 | 383 | #593 | 0.22 |
| 1994 | 376 | #598 | 0.21 |
| 1993 | 430 | #554 | 0.24 |
| 1992 | 401 | #581 | 0.22 |
| 1991 | 397 | #582 | 0.21 |
| 1990 | 400 | #579 | 0.21 |
| 1989 | 396 | #564 | 0.21 |
| 1988 | 313 | #636 | 0.18 |
| 1987 | 330 | #593 | 0.19 |
| 1986 | 340 | #575 | 0.20 |
| 1985 | 369 | #541 | 0.21 |
| 1984 | 335 | #558 | 0.20 |
| 1983 | 302 | #593 | 0.18 |
| 1982 | 318 | #576 | 0.19 |
| 1981 | 322 | #576 | 0.19 |
| 1980 | 316 | #584 | 0.19 |
| 1979 | 276 | #631 | 0.17 |
| 1978 | 269 | #626 | 0.18 |
| 1977 | 268 | #626 | 0.17 |
| 1976 | 278 | #587 | 0.19 |
| 1975 | 257 | #614 | 0.18 |
| 1974 | 198 | #726 | 0.13 |
| 1973 | 219 | #685 | 0.15 |
| 1972 | 229 | #659 | 0.15 |
| 1971 | 230 | #675 | 0.14 |
| 1970 | 252 | #650 | 0.14 |
| 1969 | 211 | #686 | 0.13 |
| 1968 | 253 | #606 | 0.15 |
| 1967 | 248 | #603 | 0.15 |
| 1966 | 266 | #577 | 0.16 |
| 1965 | 251 | #615 | 0.14 |
| 1964 | 293 | #577 | 0.15 |
| 1963 | 252 | #636 | 0.13 |
| 1962 | 227 | #684 | 0.12 |
| 1961 | 286 | #595 | 0.14 |
| 1960 | 260 | #625 | 0.13 |
| 1959 | 269 | #608 | 0.13 |
| 1958 | 233 | #646 | 0.12 |
| 1957 | 246 | #623 | 0.12 |
| 1956 | 219 | #642 | 0.11 |
| 1955 | 289 | #542 | 0.15 |
| 1954 | 267 | #543 | 0.14 |
| 1953 | 259 | #537 | 0.14 |
| 1952 | 258 | #529 | 0.14 |
| 1951 | 253 | #520 | 0.14 |
| 1950 | 208 | #581 | 0.12 |
| 1949 | 223 | #555 | 0.13 |
| 1948 | 221 | #557 | 0.13 |
| 1947 | 203 | #601 | 0.11 |
| 1946 | 198 | #566 | 0.13 |
| 1945 | 168 | #567 | 0.13 |
| 1944 | 167 | #564 | 0.13 |
| 1943 | 182 | #560 | 0.13 |
| 1942 | 182 | #552 | 0.13 |
| 1941 | 168 | #546 | 0.14 |
| 1940 | 158 | #547 | 0.14 |
| 1939 | 142 | #568 | 0.13 |
| 1938 | 162 | #536 | 0.15 |
| 1937 | 156 | #530 | 0.15 |
| 1936 | 174 | #491 | 0.17 |
| 1935 | 154 | #518 | 0.15 |
| 1934 | 161 | #505 | 0.15 |
| 1933 | 167 | #494 | 0.17 |
| 1932 | 185 | #487 | 0.17 |
| 1931 | 162 | #513 | 0.15 |
| 1930 | 180 | #497 | 0.16 |
| 1929 | 171 | #519 | 0.15 |
| 1928 | 192 | #500 | 0.17 |
| 1927 | 186 | #516 | 0.16 |
| 1926 | 185 | #513 | 0.16 |
| 1925 | 154 | #581 | 0.13 |
| 1924 | 182 | #535 | 0.15 |
| 1923 | 171 | #553 | 0.14 |
| 1922 | 190 | #506 | 0.16 |
| 1921 | 182 | #526 | 0.15 |
| 1920 | 147 | #594 | 0.12 |
| 1919 | 157 | #552 | 0.14 |
| 1918 | 191 | #493 | 0.16 |
| 1917 | 153 | #542 | 0.14 |
| 1916 | 167 | #503 | 0.16 |
| 1915 | 140 | #534 | 0.14 |
| 1914 | 125 | #502 | 0.16 |
| 1913 | 110 | #486 | 0.18 |
| 1912 | 88 | #517 | 0.16 |
| 1911 | 65 | #518 | 0.16 |
| 1910 | 64 | #515 | 0.16 |
| 1909 | 69 | #451 | 0.20 |
| 1908 | 44 | #565 | 0.13 |
| 1907 | 56 | #479 | 0.18 |
| 1906 | 58 | #449 | 0.20 |
| 1905 | 42 | #535 | 0.14 |
| 1904 | 46 | #488 | 0.17 |
| 1903 | 25 | #676 | 0.10 |
| 1902 | 41 | #498 | 0.16 |
| 1901 | 41 | #472 | 0.17 |
| 1900 | 42 | #520 | 0.14 |
| 1899 | 32 | #532 | 0.14 |
| 1898 | 49 | #438 | 0.19 |
| 1897 | 36 | #482 | 0.15 |
| 1896 | 34 | #510 | 0.14 |
| 1895 | 25 | #617 | 0.11 |
| 1894 | 32 | #510 | 0.14 |
| 1893 | 36 | #447 | 0.17 |
| 1892 | 37 | #447 | 0.17 |
| 1891 | 35 | #425 | 0.19 |
| 1890 | 31 | #472 | 0.16 |
| 1889 | 38 | #396 | 0.21 |
| 1888 | 34 | #430 | 0.19 |
| 1887 | 15 | #603 | 0.10 |
| 1886 | 33 | #375 | 0.23 |
| 1885 | 23 | #443 | 0.17 |
| 1884 | 22 | #433 | 0.17 |
| 1883 | 24 | #382 | 0.21 |
| 1882 | 20 | #414 | 0.19 |
| 1881 | 16 | #427 | 0.17 |
| 1880 | 15 | #442 | 0.16 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lucia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lucia has been given almost only to girls: 91 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Lucia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lucia, and how old are they?
51,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 59,426 Americans ever recorded as Lucia. The median Lucia alive today is 14 years old; half are between 6 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 71,628 people named Lucia (71,433 women and girls, 195 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 39,353 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 889 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,640 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,750 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,710 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 13,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 24,800 |
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 Lucia born?
The states with the most babies named Lucia are California, Texas and Florida, with 40% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 531 | #43 | 1.7× |
| Texas | 426 | #55 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 256 | #54 | 1.1× |
| New York | 173 | #79 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 147 | #50 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 106 | #65 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 91 | #112 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 86 | #126 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 83 | #68 | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 81 | #62 | 1.3× |
Where Lucia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lucia is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1910 it was given 1.8 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 Lucia 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, Lucia is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 3,012 of their 9,480 babies (32%), again the second 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 Lucia
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 Lucia and names like it
- Compare Lucia and LucyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLucia peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lucia since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Lucia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Lucia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lucia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.