Lucille
Top 1000
About Lucille
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.
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 classic names for girls. Reaching as high as Number 27 on the popular names 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.
As of October 2026, Lucille ranked #239 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #27 in 1919, Nameberry popularity #170.
Editor's take: The name Lucille is a girl's name of French origin meaning "light".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #343 | 970 | 543 |
| 2015 | #286 | 1,120 | 627.4 |
| 2016 | #281 | 1,133 | 639.4 |
| 2017 | #265 | 1,205 | 698 |
| 2018 | #295 | 1,124 | 660.8 |
| 2019 | #296 | 1,127 | 671.5 |
| 2020 | #273 | 1,139 | 704.6 |
| 2021 | #277 | 1,141 | 695.4 |
| 2022 | #281 | 1,132 | 690.2 |
| 2023 | #283 | 1,107 | 689.9 |
| 2024 | #274 | 1,151 | 710.4 |
| 2025 | #239 | 1,314 | 817.5 |
World rankings
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Lucille on lists
Famous Lucilles
- Lucille Désirée Ball
American actress and comedienne
- Lucille Fay LeSueur
birth name of Joan Crawford, American actress
- Lucille Theresa Bliss
American actress
- Lucille Elsa Roybal
Allard, U.S. Congresswoman from California
- Lucille Frances "Lucy" Lawless
New Zealand actress
- Karen Lucille "Lucy" Hale
American actress
- Lucille Mulhall
American cowgirl and Wild West performer
- Lucille Lortel
American actress
- Lucille Maree Hamilton
Australian basketball player
- Lucille Loretta Wall
American actress
- Lucille Opitz
German speed skater
- Lucille Clifton
American poet
- (Violet) Lucille Fletcher
American screenwriter
- Lucille Soong
American actress
- Lucille Marie Raymonde (Savoie) Starr
Canadian singer
- Lucille Ricksen (born Ingeborg Myrtle Elisabeth Ericksen)
American actress
- Lucille Anderson (b. 2009)
daughter of actress Maya Rudolph and director Paul Thomas Anderson
- Mary "Lucille" Diana Hanson (b. 2016)
daughter of American pop rock singer Zac Hanson
- Lucille Ruby Odom (b. 2017)
daughter of actor Leslie Odom Jr. and Nicolette Robinson
Lucille in pop culture
- Lucille Bluth and Lustille Austero
characters on TV's "Arrested Development"
- Lucille "Lucy" van Pelt
character in the Peanuts series
- Lucille Hewitt
character on British soap "Coronation Street"
- Lucille March Weeks
character on American soap "General Hospital"
- Lucille the Rubber Freak
character in Lily Tomlin's sketches
- Lucille
character in movie "Kingdom Come"
- Lucille
character in the Junie B. Jones series by Barbara Park
- Lucille
Negan's bat on 'The Walking Dead'
- Lucille
Little Richard song (1957)
- Lucille
Kenny Rogers song (1977)
- Lucille
name of B.B. King's guitars
- Lucille
B.B. King song (1985)
- Lucille Sharpe
character in movie "Crimson Peak"
- Lucille Robinson (née Anderson)
character from "Call The Midwife"
Variations & nicknames
- Lulie
- Lucie
- Lucy
- Luce