girls:
32 births since 1924
#5684 (1st percentile)
boys:
13.2k births since 1880
#1014 (78th percentile)
overall:
13.2k births since 1880
#2287 (70th percentile)
The name Lucian is the #2,287 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,189 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 70.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,014 (77.9% percentile) for all time with 13,157 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,684 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 32 births since 1924.
Lucian has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1924 for girls).
The name Lucian has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Lucian reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 51.8% percentile (ranked #440) with 334 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 334 births per million (ranked 51.8% percentile). Despite a peak around 2014, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Lucian is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #440 (51.8% percentile) with 334 births per million.
For girls, Lucian reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #752) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lucian".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Lucian. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 68.9% confident that Lucian is pronounced as LUE-shuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LUE-see-uhn, at 31.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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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 N) 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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