Luciana derived from the Roman family name Lucianus, which in turn was derived from the Roman given name Lucius. This was one of the most popular names in ancient Rome and originated from the word ‘lux’ for ‘light’.
Lucius is a male first name.
Lucius is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1215 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,214 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Lucius.
Luciana derived from the Roman family name Lucianus, which in turn was derived from the Roman given name Lucius. This was one of the most popular names in ancient Rome and originated from the word ‘lux’ for ‘light’.
Luciana is... popular in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries such as Chile and Brazil.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Lucius annualy. This means that there have been boys named Lucius 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 Lucius 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 Lucius even more than any other time: in 1881, it holds its present record at rank #243 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lucius was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Lucius has never been ranked higher than #243. In 2022, he rivaled the 1,122 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 161 boys named Lucius were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Lucius were born, there have been 27 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 Lucius 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 Lucius 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 Lucius, you can simply say:
Lion
Unicorn
Cat
Igloo
Unicorn
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lucius
Lucius
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
U
C
I
U
S
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
U
S
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. Lucius sounds like this:
