Entry № 6065 · Latin origin

Lucia Lucia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ loo-CHEE-ah / loo-SEE-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Light"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "light".

Lucia is one of the most popular girl names in Spain, Italy, and across Latin America. In the U.S. it sits comfortably in the top 150 and is rising.

Light — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Lucia
Transliteration
Lucia
Pronunciation
/ luˈtʃiː.a /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lucia stands.

Lucia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Lucias before her.

Real people
Saint Lucia of Syracuse
4th-century Christian martyr. Patron saint of the blind. Festival on December 13.
283 – 304
Lucia di Lammermoor
Title character of Donizetti's 1835 opera.
In fiction
Lucia
Title character of the Donizetti opera Lucia di Lammermoor.
1835 opera

Names connected to Lucia.

The number behind Lucia.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lucia reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.