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The name Lucille peaked for boys at #789 in 1909. Lucille is also used for girls, ranking #239 in 2025.

The name Lucille is a girl's name of French origin meaning "light".

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Lucille is a name that had long been overpowered by its link to Lucille Ball, with an image of tangerine-colored hair, big, round eyes, and a tendency to stage daffy and desperate stunts. But with the newfound craze for double-L names like Lily and Lila, Lulu and Luna, and as the choice of Lucille by hipster parents Maya Rudolph and Paul Thomas Anderson, Lucille is breaking free from its old clownish image, moving rapidly up the charts over the past decade after a long nap.
<br/><br/>Lucille has a history that far predates Lucille Ball and the 1950s.  It was well used by Christians of the Roman Empire and began to be used in the U.K. and the U.S. in the nineteenth century, making it one of the most <a href="https://nameberry.com/list/322/classic-baby-names-for-girls">classic names for girls</a>.  Reaching as high as Number 27 on the <a href="https://nameberry.com/popular-names">popular names</a> list of 1919—when there was a vogue for French sounding names like Marguerite and Genevieve—Lucille stayed in the Top 40 from 1906 to 1924.  This was followed by an almost thirty-year slump starting in 1977, when it fell off the list completely, only to return in 2003. 

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The name Lucille is currently ranked #239 in U.S. births. and peaked for girls at #27 in 1919. The name is most popular in Vermont, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Lucille is occasionally used for boys in 1953.

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