Lucia is the female form of the popular Roman given name Lucius, which was derived from Latin ‘lux’ for ‘light’.
Lucia is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Lucia 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 girls names, Lucia ranks 178. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 10 were named Lucia. In the entire USA, approximately 44,907 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Lucia. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Lucia is the female form of the popular Roman given name Lucius, which was derived from Latin ‘lux’ for ‘light’.
Saint Lucia was a... 4th-century martyr from Syracuse. She is the patron saint of the blind.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Lucia annualy. This means that there have been girls named Lucia who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Lucia have consistently been special. Since 2000, however, the name has experienced a certain popularity: in 2022 it holds its present record at #119 in the ranking of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lucia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.
With five letters, the name Lucia 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.
That means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.
If your name is Lucia 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 Lucia, you can simply say:
Lion
Unicorn
Cat
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lucia
Lucia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
U
C
I
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
I
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. Lucia sounds like this:
