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Lucille

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Lucille is ranked 274th among girls in 2024 (1,151 births). Its best rank was 27th, in 1919.

Rank in 2024
#274up 9 from 2023
Births in 2024
1,1510.07% of girls
Peak year
19207,989 births
Best rank
#27in 1919
Since 1880
231,246people given the name
Babies named Lucille, by year of birthgirls
02.5k5k7.5k10k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

231,246 girls have been named Lucille in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 7,989 births — 0.67% of all girls recorded that year.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 343 → 274).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1920s alone account for 28%. It has spent 118 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 42 of them in the top 100.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Lucille
1880s1,108
1890s5,105
1900s15,041
1910s56,147
1920s63,883
1930s30,842
1940s20,453
1950s12,049
1960s4,418
1970s1,402
1980s1,053
1990s1,215
2000s3,212
2010s9,648
2020s5,670

In 1920, its biggest year

Lucille was the 29th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.

Names that rose and fell with Lucille

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.