The English name Lucian goes back to the Roman family name Lucianus, which developed from the first name Lucius. It originated from ‘lux’ for ‘light’ and was one of the most popular first names in ancient Rome.
Lucian is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Lucian 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, Lucian ranks 577. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Lucian. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Lucian.
The English name Lucian goes back to the Roman family name Lucianus, which developed from the first name Lucius. It originated from ‘lux’ for ‘light’ and was one of the most popular first names in ancient Rome.
Since the 1900s,... Lucian has been very rare in the US, but since the 2000s it has been on a slight upward trend.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Lucian annualy. This means that there have been boys named Lucian 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 men named Lucian have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Lucian even more than any other time: in 1881, it holds its present record at rank #272 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lucian was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Lucian has never been ranked higher than #272. In 2022, he rivaled the 515 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 541 boys named Lucian were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Lucian were born, there have been 24 newborns who received this name.
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 six letters, the name Lucian is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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 Lucian 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 Lucian, you can simply say:
Lion
Unicorn
Cat
Igloo
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lucian
Lucian
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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U
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I
A
N
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.
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U
C
I
A
N
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. Lucian sounds like this:
