Lucretia is the feminine of the Roman gens name Lucretius — possibly from lucrum ("profit, gain") or lux ("light"). A top-200 US baby name in the 1880s. Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) — American Quaker abolitionist and women's-rights activist; co-organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention with Elizabeth Cady Stanton — the foundational gathering of the US women's rights movement; co-author of the Declaration of Sentiments; central figure in the American Anti-Slavery Society. Featured on the 1979 Susan B. Anthony dollar coin design's reverse alongside Stanton — among the first American women honored on US currency. Lucretia Garfield (1832-1918) — First Lady of the United States in 1881 as wife of President James Garfield; established the first systematic preservation of White House correspondence. Lucretia Borgia (Lucrezia Borgia, 1480-1519) — Italian noblewoman of the powerful Borgia family; her surname became shorthand in Western literature for poisonous intrigue, though modern historians have largely rehabilitated her reputation; Victor Hugo's play Lucrèce Borgia (1833) and Donizetti's opera Lucrezia Borgia (1833) are the major dramatic treatments. Lucretia Coffin — Lucretia Mott's birth name. *Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece (1594)* — the narrative poem about the legendary Roman matron whose suicide sparked the overthrow of the Roman monarchy and founding of the Republic.
Featured throughout US history and Italian Renaissance.
Lucretia 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lucretia reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.