Lucca is a first name for boys, occasionally also given to girls.
The name Lucca isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Lucca ranks 587. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Lucca. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Lucca.
Lucca is originally an Italian surname, which was given to someone from Lucca, a city in Sicily. The origin of this name is not clear, it probably means ‘marshy’. Lucca has recently been introduced as a given name in English-speaking countries, but is not a given name in Italy. Instead, Luca is used, a variant of [Lucas].
On Corsica, ... a French island in the Mediterranean Sea, Lucca is known as a variant of Lucas. This name is of Greek origin and means 'from Lucania', an ancient city in Italy.
You may not know anyone named Lucca, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 37 states are home to men and boys named Lucca. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Lucca living in one state or another. If your name is Lucca and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Florida, which has the most people named Lucca relative to the population, you still have to ask 6,577 men and boys their names before you hear Lucca as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.1% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Lucca is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all boys' names starting with an L, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with L that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Larry.
If your name is Lucca and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Lucca, you can simply say:
Lion
Unicorn
Cat
Cat
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lucca
Lucca
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
U
C
C
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
L
U
C
C
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Lucca sounds like this:
