Lucien — #912 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Lucien

The Social Security Administration has registered 9,725 babies named Lucien between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Lucien currently holds the #912 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 255 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lucien performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,650 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Lucien shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 732 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Massachusetts and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Lucien in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lucien in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 9,725 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.