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Lucila

#5,333 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Lucilla

Lucila has been given to 2,483 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #5,333 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1982, with 40 recorded.

Babies named Lucila, 2025

1 in 138,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lucila: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Lucilla

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lucila means

Lucila is a form of Lucilla.

Origin, language, and formation

Lucila is used in Cebuano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lucilla.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,483 girls were recorded with the name Lucila between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 40 in 1982; its best national rank was #1,363 in 1934.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,517 in 2020 to #5,333 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,613 in 2015 to #5,333 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 Lucila?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 67,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,333
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lucila 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lucila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lucilas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lucila was born before 1977 — so the typical Lucila is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
13.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,991
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Choose a decade

1980s — 13.3% of all recorded uses (331).

Is Lucila 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
+46
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,184
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,280
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.26×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.0%
Peak was 1982 (40)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,363
1934

Spellings of Lucila

Lucila is not the most common spelling — Lucille is, with 32.4% against Lucila's 0.35%.

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 Lucila is used

Across 1910–2025, Lucila was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 36,830 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 16,667
  2. 2California1 in 25,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —

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. Lucila has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lucila around the world

Where Lucila 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
    2009–2017
    #7,466
    in 2017

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Lucila

People whose public names include Lucila, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Lucila by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,333
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,184
Best rank ever
#1,363
1934
Peak year
1982
40 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,483
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Lucila

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

LucinaLuceroShailaDelilaLuciLucillaLuciannaLucienneLucaLucieLuccaLucineYamilaKalilaMikailaJailaDalilaLuckyTehilaLucettaNailaZoilaLucasBaila

Names with a curve like Lucila

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lucila, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JulienneJeanelleSulemaSamuelCameliaJanieceKarlynMariluNedaJoelCarlynJoline

Sibling names for Lucila

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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