# Lucille (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lucille/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | French |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /luˈsiːl/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Lucile |
| US babies named this | 233,321 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 750 / 232,571 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 464, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 667 | 454 |
| 2012 | 790 | 391 |
| 2013 | 878 | 360 |
| 2014 | 970 | 343 |
| 2015 | 1,120 | 286 |
| 2016 | 1,134 | 281 |
| 2017 | 1,205 | 265 |
| 2018 | 1,125 | 295 |
| 2019 | 1,127 | 296 |
| 2020 | 1,139 | 274 |
| 2021 | 1,142 | 276 |
| 2022 | 1,135 | 278 |
| 2023 | 1,107 | 285 |
| 2024 | 1,156 | 274 |
| 2025 | 1,314 | 239 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 11 | 2,252 |
| 1937 | 12 | 2,154 |
| 1938 | 13 | 2,054 |
| 1939 | 16 | 1,767 |
| 1940 | 10 | 2,424 |
| 1941 | 21 | 1,511 |
| 1942 | 10 | 2,473 |
| 1943 | 10 | 2,497 |
| 1944 | 6 | 3,319 |
| 1945 | 5 | 3,590 |
| 1946 | 6 | 3,389 |
| 1949 | 5 | 4,019 |
| 1950 | 10 | 2,524 |
| 1952 | 5 | 4,066 |
| 1953 | 5 | 4,138 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 28 | 1,168 |
| 2012 | 19 | 1,583 |
| 2013 | 24 | 1,360 |
| 2014 | 23 | 1,367 |
| 2015 | 18 | 1,649 |
| 2016 | 17 | 1,749 |
| 2017 | 21 | 1,512 |
| 2018 | 24 | 1,343 |
| 2019 | 19 | 1,562 |
| 2020 | 10 | 2,449 |
| 2021 | 15 | 1,866 |
| 2022 | 13 | 2,058 |
| 2023 | 15 | 1,863 |
| 2024 | 16 | 1,819 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2,788 |

## In other languages

- Chinese: 露西爾 /露西尔

## People named Lucille

- 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)
- Lucille Wheeler, Canadian alpine skier
- Lucille Bremer, American actress and dancer (1917-1996)
- Lucille Clifton, American poet (1936-2010)
- Lucille Roybal-Allard, American politician
- Lucille Soong, American actress (b. 1935)
- Lucille Lund, American film actress (1913–2002)
- Lucille George-Wout, Curaçaoan politician

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.