Lucette

#9,840 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Lucie

Lucette has been given to 379 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #9,840 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1963, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Lucette, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lucette: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Lucie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lucette means

Lucette is a diminutive of Lucie.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Lucette → Lucie → Lucy. The family’s meaning is “light”, recorded in English with the source elements lux.

Origin, language, and formation

Lucette is used in Norman.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lucie and Lucia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 379 girls were recorded with the name Lucette between 1920 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1963; its best national rank was #3,260 in 1948.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,984 in 2020 to #9,840 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,573 in 2015 to #9,840 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.

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How common is Lucette?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 332,000; 10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 161,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #9,840; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 229,791 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Lucette 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lucette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lucettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lucette was born before 1970 — so the typical Lucette is around 55 today.

Median birth year: 1970; About 55 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 23.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 39.6%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 309; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 23.5% of all recorded uses (89).

Is Lucette 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: +129; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +144; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +733; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.00×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 62.5%; Peak was 1963 (16)
Years since peak: 62; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 23.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,260; 1948

Spellings of Lucette

Lucette is not the most common spelling — Lynette is, with 42.3% against Lucette's 0.37%.

Lynette42.3%43,392
Suzette16.5%16,963
Lizette11.8%12,122
Lisette9.3%9,581
Lanette4.9%5,005
Linette4.2%4,285
Laurette3.0%3,106
Luetta2.0%2,073

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.

Lucette around the world

Where Lucette 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.

France
1900–2025
#4,287
in 2025
South Australia
1978–2010
#801
in 2010

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lucette by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #9,840
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 144
Best rank ever: #3,260; 1948
Peak year: 1963; 16 that year
First recorded: 1920
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 379
Count in 2025: 10

Names similar to Lucette

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

Lucetta Lucelia Lucilia Lucrezia Lucine Lucielle Lucilla Lucciana Lucianne Kolette Lunette Lucindy Lucrecia Lucylle Lucas Lucky Lucyann Lucerito Lucillia Ninette Luciella Luccia Rosette Lucina

Sibling names for Lucette

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

Jonna Bettina Maryjo Juliann Pennie Zina Deidre Johnna

For a brother

Rob Berry Deron Mitch Toney Nicky Thad Barton

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