# Luce (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/luce/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Italian.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Italian |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 9,704 |
| US rank (2010) | 3,672 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 31,816 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.3% (9,489 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Luce in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 94% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.7% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.0% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.6% |
| Two or more races | 1.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Luce in the United States.

## People named Luce

- Clare Boothe Luce, American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987
- Henry Luce, American magazine publisher (1898–1967)
- Claire Luce, American actress and dancer (1903-1989)
- R. Duncan Luce, American mathematical psychologist (1925–2012)

## Similar surnames

Lucio, Lucy, Lucey, Luse, Luke, Luck, Luckey, Lúcia, Lueck, Luc, Lucky, Luque.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.