Lucè

loc · Latin script

Lucè is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old French lus, luis, from Latin lūcius.

  • USUnited States1 in 34K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 154K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 263K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

9,704 people, 2010

Record sources
119 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Luce in US United States, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)
Derivation of Lucè: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Lucè
  1. Old Frenchlus(measured from records)
  2. Latinlūcius(measured from records)

From Old French lus, luis, from Latin lūcius.

Cited for this meaning 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Lucè counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Lucè is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States9,7041 in 34K9.7KLuce119
AR Argentina1271 in 358K127Luce33
ES Spain321 in 1.6M32Luce22
CH Switzerland321 in 263K32Luce4
UY Uruguay221 in 154K22—5
BE Belgium161 in 733K16—3

9,704 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Lucè is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, French, German

    Also written Luce, Lucé, Lūce, Lûçê, Lüçë

  • Italian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Also written Luce, Lùce

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Lucè is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, third-person singular past historic of lucere

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Lucè under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Lucè mean, and where does it come from?
From Old French lus, luis, from Latin lūcius. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 3 other sources.
In which country does Lucè have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 9.7 thousand people named Lucè, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled luce.
Where is Lucè most common?
Lucè is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 34 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Lucè?
In the United States, the national register counted 9,704 people named Lucè in 2010, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lucè”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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