girls:
34.8k births since 1880
#740 (87th percentile)
boys:
96 births since 1908
#4490 (2nd percentile)
overall:
34.9k births since 1880
#1341 (83rd percentile)
The name Lucile is the #1,341 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 34,922 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 82.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 82.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #740 (87.1% percentile) for all time with 34,826 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,490 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 96 births since 1908.
Lucile has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1908 for boys). Birth data for Lucile is available in 138 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (138 years for girls and 15 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Lucile has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Lucile reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 76.2% percentile (ranked #137) with 1,366 births per million. The name was most common in 1908, with 1,670 births per million (ranked 70.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lucile ranks #904 for girls (4.5% percentile) with 27 births per million, which is 1.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lucile reached its peak popularity in 1913, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #405) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1908, with 30 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1936.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lucile".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Lucile", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 14 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Lucille" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Lucille..
Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Lucile. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.6% confident that Lucile is pronounced as lue-SEEL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LUE-seel, at 7.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like L UW0 S IY1 L) 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.
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