How rare is the name Lucille?

58,884 people in the United States have the first name Lucille, about 1 in 5,129. It ranks #810 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

LUCILLE

#810

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
58,884
About
1 in 5,129
This common or more
66.9%
Who bears it

Of the 58,884 people named Lucille, 73.2% reported their origin as White, 15.1% as Black and 6.5% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Lucille peaked in 1920, when 8,006 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1920
Births that year
8,006
In 2025*
1,314 ▼84%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 233,321 babies have been given the name since 1880. 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.

Lucille by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1910s, when it ranked #50. The largest share of babies named Lucille, 53.5%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#2931,108
1890s#1425,105
1900s#6815,106
1910s#5056,332
1920s#7264,103
1930s#15131,030
1940s#25720,526
1950s#44112,068
1960s#8224,418
1970s#1,6001,402
1980s#2,1141,053
1990s#2,3651,215
2000s#1,4623,212
2010s#6799,650
2020s#5716,993
Before 19013.2%
Greatest Generation 1901–2753.5%
Silent Generation 1928–4523%
Baby boom 1946–649.6%
Generation X 1965–801.3%
Millennials 1981–960.7%
Generation Z 1997–122.5%
2013 and later6.2%

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 Lucille is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Lucille has been most common in South Dakota (2.3×), New Hampshire (2.2×), and North Dakota (2.1×), and least common in Nevada (0.2×).

207,788 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 Lucille

#808 Hugo · 59,062#809 Cora · 58,912#811 Reagan · 58,855#812 Bryson · 58,590

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Lucille, most common first.

#2,367 Lucila · 10,611#5,087 Lucile · 3,459#13,493 Lucilla · 893#19,953 Lucilia · 523#27,468 Lucielle · 333#32,469 Lucelly · 259#34,642 Lucilo · 235#48,685 Luciel · 130

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