Lucetta

#16,325 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Luce

Lucetta has been given to 563 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #16,325 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1916, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Lucetta, 2025

1 in 663,000

Lucetta over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lucetta: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Luce

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lucetta means

Lucetta is a diminutive of Luce.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lucetta is used in Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /lu.ˈt͡ʃet.ta/ for Lucetta.

Origin, language, and formation

Lucetta is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Luce.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 563 girls were recorded with the name Lucetta between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1916; its best national rank was #864 in 1882.

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.

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How common is Lucetta?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 321,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #16,325; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 459,581 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Lucetta 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lucetta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lucettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lucetta was born before 1925 — so the typical Lucetta is around 100 today.

Median birth year: 1925; About 100 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 23.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 3.9%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 79; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 23.1% of all recorded uses (130).

Is Lucetta 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: +391; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 22.7%; Peak was 1916 (22)
Years since peak: 109; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 34.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #864; 1882

Spellings of Lucetta

Lucetta is not the most common spelling — Loretta is, with 84.5% against Lucetta's 0.27%.

Loretta84.5%177,564
Lucretia5.0%10,430
Lauretta4.6%9,710
Luetta0.99%2,073
Louetta0.74%1,548
Lynetta0.70%1,466
Lavetta0.56%1,186
Lanetta0.51%1,064

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.

Where Lucetta is used

Across 1910–2025, Lucetta was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 153,693 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Lucetta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lucetta by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #16,325
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #864; 1882
Peak year: 1916; 22 that year
First recorded: 1882
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 563
Count in 2025: 5

Names similar to Lucetta

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

Lucette Lucilla Lucelia Lucilia Lucrezia Lucine Lucielle Arietta Lucrecia Laretta Renatta Lucciana Lucianne Lucas Lucky Lucina Lucca Lovetta Lucienne Beretta Lucianna Brigitta Luciel Rhetta

Sibling names for Lucetta

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

For a sister

Johnie Maurine Alpha Tressie Mozelle Hester Albina Alene

For a brother

Granville Waldo Winfield Regis Alva Dewitt Barney Gustave

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