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Lucious

#4,206 in 2025Boys' name

Light, through Lucius

Lucious has been given to 4,836 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #4,206 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1926, with 76 recorded.

Babies named Lucious, 2025

1 in 133,000

Lucious over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lucious: meaning, origin, and history

Light, through Lucius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lucious means

Lucious belongs to the name family reached through Lucious → Lucius. Its meaning is “light”.

Origin, language, and formation

Lucious is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lucius.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,831 boys were recorded with the name Lucious between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 76 in 1926; its best national rank was #408 in 1884.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,876 in 2020 to #4,206 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,128 in 2015 to #4,206 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Lucious between 1915 and 1915. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1915; its best national rank was #4,680 in 1915.

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 Lucious?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 68,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,206
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lucious sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lucious. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Luciouss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lucious was born before 1945 — so the typical Lucious is around 80 today.

Median birth year
1945
About 80 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
13.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,126
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1920s — 13.3% of all recorded uses (643).

Is Lucious 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
−56
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−330
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,078
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.68×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.9%
Peak was 1926 (76)
Years since peak
99
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#408
1884

Spellings of Lucious

Lucious is not the most common spelling — Lucius is, with 38.2% against Lucious's 18.2%.

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 Lucious is used

Across 1910–2025, Lucious was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 5,882 boys, against 1 in 43,591 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

017 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 5,882
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 6,250
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 12,500
  4. 4Alabama1 in 14,286
  5. 5Florida1 in 25,000
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 50,000
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Lucious has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lucious around the world

Where Lucious 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
    2007–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Lucious

People whose public names include Lucious, 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.

Lucious in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Lucious. Linked forms have their own page here.

Lucius

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Lucious by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,206
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 330
Best rank ever
#408
1884
Peak year
1926
76 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,831
Count in 2025
25

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,680
1915
Peak year
1915
5 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1915
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lucious

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

LucianoLucienLuciusLucioLuckyLucianLuccaJuliousLuciferDariousLucusLuccianoLucilleLuccasLucJuniousLucahLucanOctaviousLuceroLucyLuchianoDontaviousDemetrious

Names with a curve like Lucious

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

GilesLonzoRowlandHardyObieTillmanIvyAlvisRollieCarletonAdolphusCrawford

Sibling names for Lucious

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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