girls:
5 births since 1915
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
4.8k births since 1880
#1739 (62nd percentile)
overall:
4.8k births since 1880
#3943 (49th percentile)
The name Lucious is the #3,943 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,784 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 49.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 49.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,739 (62.1% percentile) for all time with 4,779 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1915.
Lucious has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1915 for girls). Birth data for Lucious is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (143 years for boys and 1 years for girls). 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 Lucious has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Lucious reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 12.9% percentile (ranked #480) with 66 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 164 births per million (ranked 6.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Lucious ranks #893 for boys (2.0% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 7.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Lucious reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #559) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1915.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lucious".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Lucious. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Lucious is pronounced as LUE-shuhs, which has 2 syllables.
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