Lucille

Where Lucille comes from

The dictionaries list Lucille as a given name — a female given name from French Lucille [in turn from Latin Lucilla], of 1910s US usage — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • French
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1872
    Lucille La Verne born
    American actress
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #247 among girls — 40 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1911
    Lucille Ball born
    American actress
  4. 1919
    Peak, #27
    7,856 babies named Lucille — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2025
    The comeback
    Back to #237 after sinking to #1,688 in 1992.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French Lucille [in turn from Latin Lucilla], of 1910s US usage.
Namesakes
  • Lucille Ball · American actress, 1911–1989
  • Lucille La Verne · American actress, 1872–1945
  • Lucille Ricksen · American child actress, 1910–1925
  • Lucille Teasdale-Corti · Canadian medical doctor and surgeon who worked in Uganda, 1929–1996
  • Lucille Bliss · American actress, 1916–2012

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.