Lucia: Meaning, origin and popularity

Pronounced loo-SEE-uh · 3 syllables

Lucia means “light”, from Latin.

Latinate variant of Lucy, or today borrowed from modern Italian. Name of a Sicilian martyr, Latin Lucia, feminine form of the Roman praenomen Lucius.

How popular is Lucia?

Lucia was the #83 name in the US in 2025, given to 3,012 babies. It’s rising: up 81% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 2020.

Babies named Lucia in the US by five-year period, relative to its peak (around 2020).

Half of US adults named Lucia are older than 37; most are between 19 and 77. (Estimated from US births by year and life tables.)

Names that real brothers and sisters of people named Lucia have, from family records on Wikidata, most common first.

Chosen by the same families or with a similar style and era.

Lucia means “light”. It comes from Latin.

Lucia is pronounced loo-SEE-uh.

Lucia was the #83 name in the US in 2025, given to 3,012 babies. It’s rising: up 81% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 2020.

Half of US adults named Lucia are older than 37. Most are between 19 and 77.