Entry № 6057 · Latin origin

Lucilla Lucilla — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ loo-SIL-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Little light"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "little light".

Lucilla is a Roman name meaning little light, a tender diminutive of Lucia and lux, light.

Bright and delicate, it was borne by Roman noblewomen and empresses.

Little light — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Lucilla
Transliteration
Lucilla
Pronunciation
/ luˈsil.a /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lucilla stands.

Lucilla 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.

Lucillas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Lucilla.

The number behind Lucilla.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lucilla reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.