Lucija

given name · Croatian · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Lucija is a given name, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 53rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and Hungarian, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 253◐
  • SISlovenia1 in 526
  • USUnited States1 in 2.1M

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈22K ●

across 12 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
102 ●

31K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 253 ◐

Croatia

Spellings & scripts●

LucijaLatin · Croatian●113K records
ЛуцијаCyrillic · Macedonian●170 records

Locally spelled Луција in MK North Macedonia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Lucija is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia#5316,72728K rec.1 in 25319KLucija102
SI Slovenia#1354,000△238 rec.1 in 5264.1KLucija40
LV Latvia—1,144△28 rec.1 in 1.6K1.1KLucija10
DE Germany—761678 rec.—1Lucija62
AT Austria—548145 rec.—103Lucija24
AU Australia—281247 rec.—1Lucija34
RS Serbia#82222080 rec.——Lucija19
MK North Macedonia—170△6 rec.1 in 13K170Луција3
US United States—162868 rec.1 in 2.1M162Lucija62
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#44115634 rec.—39Lucija15
SE Sweden—125△56 rec.1 in 82K125Lucija13
NO Norway—1203 rec.—120Lucija3

Roughly 17K people in Croatia bear this name (about 1 in 253). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Croatian113K90%
  • Hungarian8.1K6%
  • German1.4K1%
  • English9761%
  • Slovenian2741%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Croatian113,45490%
Hungarian8,0636%
German1,3781%
English9761%
Slovenian2741%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Lucija is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name1.6K records spelled Lucija2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Slovenia, Latvia

    Also written Lūcija

  • Latvian given name421 records spelled Lucija4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Lithuania, United States

    Languages: Latvian, Lithuanian

    Also written Lūcija, Lučija

  • French given name278 records spelled Lucija3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Slovenia, United States

    Also written Lūcija

  • Finnish given name136 records spelled Lucija4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Lūcija, Lücija

  • Italian given name131 records spelled Lucija24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Philippines, Spain

    Also written Lucia, Luciana, Lucía, Lucìa, Lùcia

  • Czech given name84 records spelled Lucija5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Lucíja, Lūcija, Lučija

  • Russian name78 records spelled Lucija4 spellings in the group

    Also written Lūcija

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Lucija is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

050100150200020102020106 · 2008

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Lucija in SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register), Slovenia, 1992–2024
Yearrecords
199278
199375
199489
199585
199692
199787
1998100
199996
200082
200194
200294
200372
200475
200579
200686
2007104
2008106
200979
201071
201183
201275
201375
201452
201567
201660
201757
201863
201965
202047
202152
202248
202367
202450

SI SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) — 33 years between 1992–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

0500100015002000Lucia, b. 283Lucy Maud Montgomery, b. 1874Kate Jackson, b. 1948Nigella Lawson, b. 1960Lucy Lawless, b. 1968Lucy Liu, b. 1968Lucy Hawking, b. 1969Charlotte Gainsbourg, b. 1971Lucy Punch, b. 1977Ophelia Lovibond, b. 1986
  • Luciab. 283ITnot in their usual namesaint from Italy
  • Lucy Maud Montgomeryb. 1874CAnot in their usual nameCanadian writer (1874–1942)
  • Kate Jacksonb. 1948USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, producer, and director (born 1948)
  • Nigella Lawsonb. 1960GBnot in their usual nameEnglish food writer and television cook (born 1960)
  • Lucy Lawlessb. 1968NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand actress
  • Lucy Liub. 1968USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1968)
  • Lucy Hawkingb. 1969GBnot in their usual nameEnglish journalist and novelist
  • Charlotte Gainsbourgb. 1971GBnot in their usual nameFrench and British actress and singer (born 1971)
  • Lucy Punchb. 1977GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress
  • Ophelia Lovibondb. 1986GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actress (born 1986)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 43 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Lucija
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202119K—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202117K#52
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—4.1K#132
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20254K#69
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20244K#69
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20233.9K#71
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20223.9K#69
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20213.9K#70
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20203.8K#71
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20193.8K#73
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20183.7K#75
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20173.7K#76

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 198 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Lucija?
We estimate roughly 22 thousand people bear Lucija (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Lucija have the most bearers?
We estimate about 17 thousand people bear Lucija in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled lucija.
Where is Lucija most common?
Lucija is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 253 people carrying it.
How common is Lucija compared with other names?
In Croatia, Lucija is the 53rd most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.
Is Lucija a male or female name?
Lucija is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lucija” — the 53rd most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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