girls:
53.6k births since 1880
#550 (90th percentile)
boys:
91 births since 1926
#4495 (2nd percentile)
overall:
53.7k births since 1880
#1031 (87th percentile)
The name Lucia is the #1,031 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 53,725 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 86.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #550 (90.4% percentile) for all time with 53,634 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,495 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 91 births since 1926.
Lucia has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1926 for boys).
The name Lucia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Lucia reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 88.9% percentile (ranked #106) with 1,390 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 1,390 births per million (ranked 88.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1998, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lucia is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #106 (88.9% percentile) with 1,390 births per million.
For boys, Lucia reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #748) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 5 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lucia".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Lucia.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Lucia", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Lucia.
Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Lucia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.1% confident that Lucia is pronounced as LUE-shuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LUE-see-uh, at 32.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like L UW1 SH AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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