Lucina
Lucina was given to 50 girls in 2025, #3,193 among girls’ names; 1,619 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,250 Americans named Lucina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 8 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lucina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lucina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lucina is “a female given name from Latin.”
From Middle English Lucina and Lucyna, from Latin Lūcīna.
/luˈsiːnə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lucina?
#3,193 among girls’ names, 2025
Lucina rose from #4,808 in 2015 to #3,193 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 16.2 to 31.1 per million.
52 babies in 2024, the peak
Lucina peaked in 2024, when 52 girls were given it, #3,103 among girls’ names. The 50 births of 2025 are 96% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #3,193 | 31.1 |
| 2024 | 52 | #3,103 | 32.1 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,310 | 30.5 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,423 | 19.5 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,290 | 20.1 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,500 | 18.6 |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,591 | 25.6 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,728 | 17.0 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,761 | 16.8 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,899 | 22.0 |
Every recorded year (117)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,808 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,339 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,397 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,927 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,008 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,384 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,961 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,602 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,914 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,081 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,856 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,612 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,429 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,907 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,883 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,416 | 11.6 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,805 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,364 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,768 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,589 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,585 | 9.7 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,516 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,462 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,172 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,821 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,973 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,260 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,770 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,115 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,906 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,067 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,729 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,799 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,488 | 14.2 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,943 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,432 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,978 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,079 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,810 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,754 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,234 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,798 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,403 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,673 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,804 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,114 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,137 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,992 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,418 | 9.1 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,182 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,103 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,808 | 6.9 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,557 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,418 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,909 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,607 | 6.4 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,854 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,316 | 7.0 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,413 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,684 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,253 | 4.6 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,251 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,593 | 5.8 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,402 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,776 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,095 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,761 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,160 | 6.8 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,956 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,559 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,072 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,119 | 7.4 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,806 | 5.8 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,644 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,696 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,068 | 8.5 |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,001 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,031 | 5.7 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,624 | 6.9 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,811 | 4.7 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,377 | 7.5 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,376 | 12.4 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,901 | 6.3 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,015 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,103 | 5.9 |
| 1926 | 17 | #2,215 | 14.3 |
| 1925 | 11 | #3,051 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,470 | 12.0 |
| 1923 | 11 | #3,041 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,555 | 11.7 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,447 | 12.2 |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,133 | 15.0 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,746 | 10.6 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,450 | 12.1 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,641 | 11.1 |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,084 | 15.3 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,056 | 6.1 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,774 | 10.5 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,233 | 9.0 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,625 | 23.9 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,111 | 16.9 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,830 | 20.6 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,782 | 21.8 |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,257 | 34.2 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,238 | 34.3 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,136 | 37.6 |
| 1880 | 5 | #896 | 54.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lucina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lucina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 117 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lucina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lucina, and how old are they?
1,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 77% of the 1,619 Americans ever recorded as Lucina. The median Lucina alive today is 26 years old; half are between 8 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 4,445 people named Lucina (4,437 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,054 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.2 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 | 33 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 134 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 171 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 223 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 238 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 446 |
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 Lucina born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 14 | #1,627 | 1.5× |
| New York | 6 | #1,968 | 0.1× |
Where Lucina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lucina is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.5 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 Lucina 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 20,913 babies since 1880, Lucina is the third most given (7.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 50 of their 1,316 babies (3.8%), again the third 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 Lucina
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1880-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Amalia | 16,478 |
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 Lucina and names like it
- Compare Lucina and LucianaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLucina peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lucina since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Lucina: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Lucina.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lucina alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.