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Luce

#14,229 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Luca or Lucia

Luce has been given to 38 babies in the U.S. since 1922. In 2025 it ranked #14,229 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Luce, 2025

1 in 553,000

Luce over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Luce: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Luca or Lucia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Luce means

Luce is a variant of Luca or Lucia.

Origin, language, and formation

Luce is used in Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Luca and Lucia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 38 girls were recorded with the name Luce between 1922 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2020; its best national rank was #4,777 in 1922.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #12,934 in 2020 to #14,229 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Luce?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,229
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Luce sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Luce. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Luces were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Luce was born before 2023 — so the typical Luce is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
71.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
32
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Choose a decade

2020s — 71.1% of all recorded uses (27).

Is Luce rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,312
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,295
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
85.7%
Peak was 2020 (7)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
7.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,777
1922

Spellings of Luce

Luce is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 32.9% against Luce's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Luce around the world

Where Luce ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2017–2022
    #3,971
    in 2022
  • France
    1900–2025
    #421
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Luce by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,229
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,295
Best rank ever
#4,777
1922
Peak year
2020
7 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
38
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Luce

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Luce

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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