Entry № 6058 · French origin

Lucille Lucille — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Light (Lucille Ball, I Love Lucy)"
Syllables
3
Rank · US 2025
№ 380
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "light (lucille ball, i love lucy)".

Lucille is the French feminine of Lucius — from the Latin lux (light). Lucille Ball (1911-1989) — *American actress whose I Love Lucy (1951-1957) was the most-watched US television show for four of its six seasons and remains among the most influential sitcoms in television history. Co-founded Desilu Productions with Desi Arnaz in 1950, becoming the first woman to head a major Hollywood production company (responsible for Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, The Untouchables*). The first female recipient of the International Radio and Television Society Gold Medal (1971). Presidential Medal of Freedom (1989). Honored on a US postage stamp.

Subject of Aaron Sorkin's Being the Ricardos (2021) starring Nicole Kidman.

Light. First woman to run a major Hollywood studio; I Love Lucy ran the most-watched four-of-six seasons.

The name in its native script.

Lucille
Transliteration
Lucille
Pronunciation
/ luːˈsiːl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lucille stands.

Current rank · 2025
№ 380 in the U.S.
All-time peak
№ 30 in 1929
Babies named Lucille · last year
800 in the U.S.
First entered SSA top-1000
1880
Rank, 1995–2025 Lower = more popular
№25 №75 №150 №250 1995 2005 2015 2020 2025 PEAK · #30 NOW · #380

Lucilles before her.

Real people
Lucille Ball
American sitcom pioneer.
1911 – 1989
Lucille Clifton
American Pulitzer poet.
1936 – 2010
In fiction
Lucille
I Love Lucy.
1951

Names connected to Lucille.

The number behind Lucille.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lucille reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.