Entry № 6077 · Italian origin

Lucrezia Lucrezia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ loo-KREH-tsee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"Rich, prosperous"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "rich, prosperous".

Lucrezia is the Italian form of Lucretia — from the Roman family name Lucretius, meaning "rich" or "profit." Lucrezia Borgia (1480-1519), the Renaissance Italian noblewoman, is the most famous bearer.

Lucrezia is widely used in modern Italy.

Rich. The Borgia Renaissance icon.

The name in its native script.

Lucrezia
Transliteration
Lucrezia
Pronunciation
/ luːˈkrɛt.si.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lucrezia stands.

Lucrezia 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.

Lucrezias before her.

Real people
Lucrezia Borgia
Italian Renaissance noblewoman.
1480 – 1519
In fiction
Lucrezia
Heroine of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia.
1833 opera

Names connected to Lucrezia.

The number behind Lucrezia.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lucrezia reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.