girls:
5 births since 2006
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
9.5k births since 1880
#1210 (74th percentile)
overall:
9.5k births since 1880
#2768 (64th percentile)
The name Lucien is the #2,768 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,474 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 64.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,210 (73.6% percentile) for all time with 9,469 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2006.
Lucien has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 2006 for girls).
The name Lucien has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Lucien reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 27.3% percentile (ranked #365) with 159 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 170 births per million (ranked 9.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Lucien ranks #669 for boys (26.6% percentile) with 136 births per million, which is 80.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Lucien reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #966) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lucien".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Lucien", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 4 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Lucian" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Lucian..
Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Lucien. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 37.2% confident that Lucien is pronounced as LUE-see-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LUE-shuhn, at 34.9% confidence, with 2 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 S IY0 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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