Lucille

given name · English · Latin script

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

Lucille is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 14th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: French form of Lucilla, used also in the English-speaking world, especially in the southern United States.

rarermore common
  • JMJamaica1 in 1.8K◐
  • SGSingapore1 in 3.6K
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 4.2K

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

≈98K ●

across 9 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
382 ●

1.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.8K ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

LucilleLatin · English●1.1M records
לוסילHebrew · Hebrew●602 records

Locally spelled לוסיל in FR France, IL Israel.

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●

French form of Lucilla, used also in the English-speaking world, especially in the southern United States. A wellknown bearer of the name was the American comedy actress Lucille Ball (1910-89).

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Lucille is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#44158,794954K rec.1 in 5.7K59KLucille382
GB United Kingdom#48049,74049K rec.—3Lucille109
FR France—37,675△25 rec.1 in 1.8K38Kלוסיל7
CA Canada#53019,79518K rec.—7Lucille113
AU Australia#67917,67617K rec.—4Lucille108
PH Philippines—11,24010K rec.——Lucille76
IT Italy#7167,7287.8K rec.—2Lucille21
ZA South Africa—3,3183.2K rec.——Lucille66
RU Russia—3,1193.2K rec.——Lucille16
SG Singapore#2112,9553K rec.——Lucille22
JM Jamaica#142,6262.6K rec.——Lucille7
EG Egypt—1,8271.8K rec.——Lucille6

Roughly 59K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 5.7K). 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●

  • English1.1M77%
  • French107K7%
  • Spanish47K3%
  • 44K3%
  • German16K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English1,105,17477%
French107,0237%
Spanish47,3563%
43,9313%
German16,2871%

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◐

Lucille is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name178K records spelled Lucille14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Philippines, Brazil

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Lucilla, Lucìlle, Lucílle, Lüçïllë, Luçille

  • Polish given name5.9K records spelled Lucille17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Люсиль, Lucile

  • Italian given name4.9K records spelled Lucille2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, San Marino

    Also written Luciĺle

  • Greek given name2.3K records spelled Lucille3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom, South Africa

    Also written Lucile, Λουσιλ

54 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●

Lucille is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A female given name from French Lucille [in turn from Latin Lucilla], of 1910s US usage.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, weibl. Vom., englische [lu'sil] Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • From Latin. See main dictionary. M

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

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●

02K4K6K8K1900195020008K · 1920

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Lucille in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188040
188148
188285
188366
188494
1885100
1886139
1887149
1888179
1889208
1890241
1891252
1892380
1893368
1894440
1895532
1896637
1897648
1898795
1899812
19001,182
1901894
19021,087
19031,193
19041,351
19051,533
19061,676
19071,853
19082,080
19092,192
19102,692
19112,740
19123,763
19134,098
19145,320
19157,006
19167,241
19177,529
19187,902
19197,856
19207,989
19217,698
19227,151
19236,914
19246,744
19256,397
19265,760
19275,634
19285,094
19294,502
19304,327
19313,854
19323,650
19333,117
19342,947
19352,887
19362,632
19372,636
19382,480
19392,313
19402,271
19412,203
19422,300
19432,248
19441,983
19451,885
19461,957
19471,998
19481,853
19491,755
19501,550
19511,478
19521,451
19531,496
19541,330
19551,140
19561,048
1957945
1958818
1959792
1960677
1961635
1962527
1963498
1964476
1965416
1966358
1967300
1968272
1969259
1970235
1971203
1972158
1973121
1974131
1975105
1976135
1977121
197888
1979105
1980126
1981100
1982109
1983123
198499
198594
198697
198796
198896
1989113
1990112
199199
199289
1993113
1994131
1995115
1996119
1997132
1998142
1999163
2000154
2001192
2002199
2003252
2004284
2005323
2006386
2007380
2008503
2009539
2010634
2011667
2012790
2013878
2014970
20151,120
20161,134
20171,205
20181,125
20191,127
20201,139
20211,142
20221,135
20231,107
20241,156
20251,314

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Lucille La Verne, b. 1872Joan Crawford, b. 1905Lucille Ball, b. 1911Lucille Fletcher, b. 1912June Foray, b. 1917Ann Miller, b. 1923Mamie Van Doren, b. 1931Lucy Lawless, b. 1968Lucy Hale, b. 1989Phoebe Bridgers, b. 1994
  • Lucille La Verneb. 1872USAmerican actress (1872–1945)
  • Joan Crawfordb. 1905USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1908–1977)
  • Lucille Ballb. 1911USAmerican actress (1911–1989)
  • Lucille Fletcherb. 1912USAmerican playwright and screenwriter (1912–2000)
  • June Forayb. 1917USnot in their usual nameAmerican voice actress (1917–2017)
  • Ann Millerb. 1923USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and dancer (1923–2004)
  • Mamie Van Dorenb. 1931USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
  • Lucy Lawlessb. 1968NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand actress
  • Lucy Haleb. 1989USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and singer
  • Phoebe Bridgersb. 1994USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician (born 1994)

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 64 sources across 39 countries.

Official registers attesting Lucille
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202059K#810
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20249.2K#1,418
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20251.3K—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—441#2,190
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025242#359
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—198#5,487
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022135—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—133#33,416
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—123#7,391
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202090#810
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—86#5,955
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—58#10,854

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 · 514 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Lucille?
We estimate roughly 98 thousand people bear Lucille (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Lucille have the most bearers?
We estimate about 59 thousand people bear Lucille in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled lucille.
How common is Lucille compared with other names?
In the United States, Lucille is the 441st most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Lucille a male or female name?
Lucille 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.
What does the name Lucille mean?
Recorded meaning: French form of Lucilla, used also in the English-speaking world, especially in the southern United States.
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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, “Lucille” — the 441st most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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