Entry № 6076 · Latin origin

Lucretia Lucretia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ loo-KREE-shah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Profit / virtue (Lucretia Mott, abolitionist + Lucrezia Borgia)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "profit / virtue (lucretia mott, abolitionist + lucrezia borgia)".

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. Featured on the 1979 Susan B. Lucretia Coffin — Lucretia Mott's birth name.

Profit / virtue.

The name in its native script.

Lucretia
Transliteration
Lucretia
Pronunciation
/ luːˈkriː.ʃə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lucretia stands.

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.

Lucretias before her.

Real people
Lucretia Mott
American abolitionist and suffragist.
1793 – 1880
Lucretia Garfield
US First Lady.
1832 – 1918
Lucrezia Borgia
Italian Renaissance noblewoman.
1480 – 1519
In fiction
Lucrece
Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece.
1594

Names connected to Lucretia.

The number behind Lucretia.

8

The Visionary

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.