How rare is the name Lucero?

9,788 people in the United States have the first name Lucero, about 1 in 30,857. It ranks #2,499 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

LUCERO

#2,499

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
9,788
About
1 in 30,857
This common or more
80%
Who bears it

Of the 9,788 people named Lucero, 98% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino and 1.3% as White. 98.4% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Lucero peaked in 1994, when 350 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19612025
Peak year
1994
Births that year
350
In 2025*
147 ▼58%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 7,947 babies have been given the name since 1961. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Lucero by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,384. The largest share of babies named Lucero, 44.9%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1960s#14,95510
1970s#7,690113
1980s#3,888413
1990s#1,3842,759
2000s#1,8652,292
2010s#2,6561,526
2020s#2,824834
Baby boom 1946–640.1%
Generation X 1965–801.7%
Millennials 1981–9631%
Generation Z 1997–1244.9%
2013 and later22.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Lucero is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Lucero has been most common in California (4.1×), Texas (3.8×), and Arizona (3.6×), and least common in New York (0.34×).

6,094 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Lucero

#2,497 Roselyn · 9,798#2,498 Raelyn · 9,791#2,500 Eloisa · 9,769#2,501 Aleksandr · 9,767

Also a last name

As a last name, Lucero ranks #885 of 156,621, with 38,613 people. See Lucero as a last name

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