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Around the globe, Lucanus (Lucan , Lucano , Лукан ) is quite a rare primarily boy's, but very seldom girly forename. The first name Lucanus is habitual in Bulgaria, where it is quite a common male name, Romania, where it is quite a rare dominantly boy's, but seldom girly name, and Trinidad and Tobago, where it is quite a rare boy's name. Measured by absolute frequency, it most frequently occurs in Bulgaria, Mexico, and Romania. More prevalently, Lucanus is the last name as well as the forename.
Lucanus is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Lucano , the operatic character in the opera L'incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi; Lucan, poet, intimate of Nero and Lucan , the musical character in the musical Artus-Excalibur by Frank Wildhorn.