A French form of Lucilla, Lucille goes back to the name Lucia. This was an ancient Roman given name, that originated from ‘lux’ for ‘light’.
Lucille is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Lucille 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, Lucille ranks 282. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 7 were named Lucille. In the entire USA, approximately 203,699 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Lucille. That is 0.06 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Lucille is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Lucille for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Lucille is therefore one of only 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Lucille is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed 27 Lucille easily made it into the Top 100 of our SmartGenius stats for female first names and has never been more popular than back in 1919.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lucille was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 1,126 babies were named Lucille in the USA in 2022, ranking it #263 on the list of the most popular girls' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 1992, when it was only ranked at #1,580 of all female names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 89 girls were named Lucille.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Lucille is one of them. However, Lucille is not equally widespread in all states, but people in South Dakota seem to particularly fancy this name – the 1,583 women called Lucille who live here are 0,310% of all female residents and push their name up to #89, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in South Dakota.
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 Lucille 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.
If your name is Lucille 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 Lucille, you can simply say:
Lion
Unicorn
Cat
Igloo
Lion
Lion
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lucille
Lucille
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
U
C
I
L
L
E
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
L
L
E
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. Lucille sounds like this:
