Lucia

Where Lucia comes from

Latinate variant of Lucy, or today borrowed from modern Italian. Name of a Sicilian martyr, Latin Lūcia, feminine form of the Roman praenomen Lūcius.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lucia
  • Latin
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #435 among girls — 15 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1931
    Lucia Bose born
    Italian-born Spanish actress
  3. 1939
    Lucia Popp born
    Slovak operatic soprano
  4. 2025
    Peak, #83
    3,012 babies named Lucia — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Lucia Bose · Italian-born Spanish actress, 1931–2020
  • Lucia Popp · Slovak operatic soprano, 1939–1993
  • Lucia Berlin · American writer, 1936–2004
  • Lucia Anguissola · Italian painter, 1536–1565
  • Lucia Bronzetti · Italian tennis player, born 1998

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.