Lucía
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Lucy
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/luθia/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lucía is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 23rd most common given name.
- ESSpain1 in 224(measured from records)
- UYUruguay≈1 in 227
- ARArgentina≈1 in 383
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #270 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 444 (measured from records)
- 1 in 224 (inferred from the name graph)
248,576 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Lucia in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, US United States and 4 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)
a female given name, equivalent to English Lucy
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lucía 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #23 | 248,576 | 1 in 852 | 288K | Lucia | 212 |
| ES Spain | #72 | 222,807 | 1 in 224 | 223K | Lucia | 233 |
| IT Italy | #376 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 434 | listed | Lucia | 141 |
| AR Argentina | #96 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 383 | 2.2K | Lucia | 161 |
| US United States | #704 | 71,628 | 1 in 4.6K | 71K | Lucia | 444 |
| PY Paraguay | #626 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 456 | #7 | Lucia | 44 |
| UY Uruguay | #6 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 227 | — | Lucia | 105 |
248,576 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Lucía is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Femenino de Lucio; de Santa Lucía, mártir siciliana, patrona de los ciegos.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Lorraine
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Galician, first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of lucir
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Luciab. 1265TRCountess of Tripoli and Princess of Antioch
- Lucía Sánchez Saornilb. 1895ESSpanish poet, journalist, sindicalist, anarchist and feminist (1895-1970)
- Lucía Hiriart de Pinochetb. 1923CLAugusto Pinochet's widow (1923–2021)
- Lucía Topolanskyb. 1944UYformer political prisoner and Uruguayan legislator
- Lucia Mendezb. 1955MXMexican actress and singer
- Lucía Etxebarriab. 1966ESSpanish writer
- Lucía Puenzob. 1973ARArgentine writer and film director
- Lucía Jiménezb. 1978ESSpanish actress
- Vanessa Valladaresb. 1985ESnot in their usual nameAustralian Model
- Lucía Ramosb. 1991ESSpanish actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 21 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Lucía have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 249 thousand people named Lucía, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lucia.
- Where is Lucía most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lucía is densest in Spain — about 1 in 224 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Lucía?
- A machine transcription gives /luθia/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Lucía mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Lucy Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Lucía?
- In the etymology graph, Luz, Cindy and Luciana are forms of the same name in other languages; Lucila is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Lucía?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 248,576 people named Lucía in 2022, about 1 in 852 residents.
- How common is Lucía compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Lucía is the 23rd most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
- Is Lucía a male or female name?
- Lucía is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/luc%C3%ADaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Lucía” — the 23rd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.