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Lucretia

#11,514 in 2025Girls' name

Gain, profit

Lucretia has been given to 10,430 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #11,514 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1974, with 190 recorded.

Babies named Lucretia, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lucretia: meaning, origin, and history

Gain, profit

Latin

What Lucretia means

Lucretia means “gain, profit”, associated with lucrum.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Originally from Latin lucrum (“gain, profit”). Many people with the given name have no doubt been named after others so named, not necessarily after the 6th-century-BC Roman noblewoman.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Lucretia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Lucretia is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Lucretia comes through Latin lucrum.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lucretius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Lucretia is pronounced /l(j)uːˈkɹiːʃə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,430 girls were recorded with the name Lucretia between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 190 in 1974; its best national rank was #207 in 1882.

How common is Lucretia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,514
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lucretia 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lucretia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lucretias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lucretia was born before 1954 — so the typical Lucretia is around 71 today.

Median birth year
1954
About 71 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
15.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5,756
People you could plausibly meet
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1970s — 15.0% of all recorded uses (1,568).

Is Lucretia 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
4.2%
Peak was 1974 (190)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#207
1882

Spellings of Lucretia

Lucretia is the most-used spelling, taking 77.3% of the 13,501 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Lucretia is used

Across 1910–2025, Lucretia was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 27,522 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 11,111
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 12,500
  3. 3Florida1 in 14,286
  4. 4Georgia1 in 14,286
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 14,286
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 16,667
  7. 7New York1 in 20,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 20,000

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

Lucretia around the world

Where Lucretia 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
    1996–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    2020–2020
    #7,001
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1962–2000
    #727
    in 2000

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Lucretia

People whose public names include Lucretia, 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.

Lucretia in other languages

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

LucreziaLucrèceLukrecjaLukréciaLukrécie

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

Lucretia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,514
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#207
1882
Peak year
1974
190 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,430
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Lucretia

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

LucianaLuciannaLuceroLucienneLucindaLucreciaLucieLucilePortiaLucilaLucillaCelestiaLucreziaLetitiaLucinaLucielleLuccianaLucianneLucettaLucilleLuciaKatiaLucritiaLucette

Names with a curve like Lucretia

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

ThomasCarmelitaRichardAngelitaTrevaJeanettaGeorgetteLetitiaPaulThomasinaFeliceKenneth

Sibling names for Lucretia

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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