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The first name 
Luciana

Luciana is a first name for girls.

Luciana – popular and common in the US

The name Luciana 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, Luciana ranks 400. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 5 were named Luciana. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Luciana.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Luciana

Luciana has 7 letters 
and begins with an L

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 seven letters, the name Luciana has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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.

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.

Other names with 
L, u, c, i, a, n and a

If you take all the letters in the name Luciana – L, u, c, i, a, n and a – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Luicana.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Luciana

If your name is Luciana 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...

This is how you spell the name Luciana

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Luciana, you can simply say:

Lion

Unicorn

Cat

Igloo

Apple

Nut

Apple

This is how the name Luciana is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Luciana in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Luciana

Luciana

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Luciana

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Luciana is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

L
U
C
I
A
N
A

Have you ever waved the name Luciana

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
N
A

Beeping like crazy...

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. Luciana sounds like this: