Lucero
#1,512 for girls in 2025, 141 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 97.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1994 · 334 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,729since 1961
Lucero over time
Rank among girls' names. Lucero has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,512 | 141 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #1,664 | 123 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,465 | 150 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | #1,490 | 146 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,641 | 127 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,649 | 125 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #1,740 | 119 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,520 | 143 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #1,591 | 137 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,628 | 134 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,814 | 115 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,684 | 125 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,391 | 166 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,405 | 164 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,217 | 197 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,136 | 215 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #1,045 | 249 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,076 | 243 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #957 | 284 | — | |
| 2006 | #974 | 268 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #968 | 254 | #6,634 | 11 |
| 2004 | #1,252 | 173 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #1,126 | 195 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,034 | 209 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,127 | 186 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,065 | 194 | #6,839 | 9 |
| 1999 | #1,054 | 192 | #7,874 | 7 |
| 1998 | #867 | 243 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #865 | 236 | #5,642 | 10 |
| 1996 | #759 | 278 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #725 | 282 | #4,280 | 14 |
| 1994 | #647 | 334 | #3,911 | 16 |
| 1993 | #690 | 313 | #3,246 | 20 |
| 1992 | #781 | 264 | #3,459 | 18 |
| 1991 | #773 | 266 | #2,989 | 21 |
| 1990 | #864 | 227 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #1,350 | 114 | #4,527 | 11 |
| 1988 | #2,987 | 34 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,236 | 48 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,620 | 37 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | #2,317 | 43 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #3,423 | 24 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,151 | 26 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,347 | 17 | — | |
| 1981 | #3,147 | 27 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,992 | 19 | — | |
| 1979 | #3,442 | 23 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,777 | 19 | — | |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 | — | |
| 1974 | #5,360 | 10 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 | — | |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | — | |
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| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | — | |
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| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Lucero! It came in at #6,567, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1969, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Lucero is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#568 · 1 in 3,142
- Texas#600 · 1 in 3,225
- Arizona#686 · 1 in 3,318
- South Carolina#774 · 1 in 3,840
- North Carolina#862 · 1 in 4,808
Best ever in a state: #238 in Nevada, 1990.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #568 | 73 | 1 in 3,142 |
| Texas | #600 | 52 | 1 in 3,225 |
| Arizona | #686 | 11 | 1 in 3,318 |
| South Carolina | #774 | 5 | 1 in 3,840 |
| North Carolina | #862 | 10 | 1 in 4,808 |
| Georgia | #942 | 10 | 1 in 5,282 |
| Illinois | #1,242 | 8 | 1 in 8,278 |
| Florida | #1,265 | 10 | 1 in 8,608 |
| New York | #1,802 | 7 | 1 in 13,647 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Lucero
- 152 spots since 2024 (#1,664 → #1,512)
- 137 spots since 2020 (#1,649 → #1,512)
- 302 spots since 2015 (#1,814 → #1,512)
- Biggest jump: 486 spots in 1990 (#1,350 → #864)
- Biggest drop: 187 spots in 1999 (#867 → #1,054)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 1994 at #647 (334 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 18 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1990–1998
- Highest: 1 in 5,347 girls born in 1994 were named Lucero (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 11,399 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 34.1% of all girls named Lucero (2,635) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10 | #6,567 (1961) | #7,019 |
| 1970s | 113 | #3,442 (1979) | #5,092 |
| 1980s | 389 | #1,350 (1989) | #2,957 |
| 1990s | 2,635 | #647 (1994) | #803 |
| 2000s | 2,255 | #957 (2007) | #1,062 |
| 2010s | 1,515 | #1,136 (2010) | #1,513 |
| 2020s | 812 | #1,465 (2023) | #1,570 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Lucero in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 7,782 of them was named Lucero, which outranked 94.7% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 408,030 of them was named Lucero, which outranked 14.2% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).