Lucille
For 2025 the count puts Lucille at #239 nationwide, and rising year over year. The peak was 1920, a name your child would share with a great-aunt, which is quietly part of its charm.
Lucille’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Lucille, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Lucille since 1880
Lucille peaked in 1920 at #29; #239 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Lucille is most common
Among the states, Lucille takes its largest share in Vermont, 0.72% of the girls' names recorded there in 2025, with Wyoming and South Dakota next.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Lucille
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Louis
#249 in 2025 · Teutonic
Leon
#138 in 2025 · Greek
Margaret
#112 in 2025 · Greek
Alice
#65 in 2025 · Teutonic
Lillian
#57 in 2025
Warren
#240 in 2025 · Teutonic
Miriam
#246 in 2025 · Hebrew
Harvey
#251 in 2025 · Celtic
Browse: names starting with L · all names
About Lucille
Where does Lucille rank right now?
For 2025 the count puts Lucille at #239 nationwide, and rising year over year. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
Does Lucille have a meaning on record?
No recorded meaning in the references we are allowed to cite, Lucille keeps its mystery, and we keep our sourcing rule.
What names go with Lucille?
Nearest by the published recipe: Louis, Leon and Margaret. The sibling matcher scores every common American name against the ones you already have.
Get Lucille’s free Name Kit
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