How rare is the name Lucius?

4,036 people in the United States have the first name Lucius, about 1 in 74,834. It ranks #4,561 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

LUCIUS

#4,561

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,036
About
1 in 74,834
This common or more
84.2%
Who bears it

Of the 4,036 people named Lucius, 44.1% reported their origin as White, 32.6% as Black and 12.4% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are male (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Lucius peaked in 2025, when 189 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
2025
Births that year
189
In 2025*
189
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 10,108 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.

Lucius by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #641. The largest share of babies named Lucius, 22.8%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#641327
1890s#864291
1900s#943351
1910s#1,0681,029
1920s#1,2551,142
1930s#1,397799
1940s#1,602777
1950s#1,970737
1960s#2,572513
1970s#3,339413
1980s#4,302354
1990s#6,932248
2000s#3,621886
2010s#2,9651,314
2020s#2,658927
Before 19016.5%
Greatest Generation 1901–2722.8%
Silent Generation 1928–4514.1%
Baby boom 1946–6413.2%
Generation X 1965–807%
Millennials 1981–964.9%
Generation Z 1997–1213.1%
2013 and later18.5%

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 Lucius is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Lucius has been most common in South Carolina (9.3×), Georgia (7.5×), and Mississippi (4.7×), and least common in Michigan (0.27×).

4,664 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 Lucius

#4,559 Hali · 4,037#4,559 Ting · 4,037#4,562 Elie · 4,034#4,563 Lev · 4,033

Spelled almost the same

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

#8,164 Lucus · 1,790#8,628 Lucious · 1,673

Also a last name

As a last name, Lucius ranks #14,552 of 156,621, with 1,969 people. See Lucius as a last name

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