Luciano

given name · Latin script

Meaning: from the personal name Luciano, Latin Lucianus (adjectival derivative of Lucius), borne by a number of minor early Christian martyrs

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Luciano is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Angola it is the 65th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 450(inferred from the name graph)
  • ITItaly≈1 in 679
  • BRBrazil1 in 685

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)

309,017 people, 2022

#905 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

Sources
289 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 450 (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from the personal name Luciano, Latin Lucianus (adjectival derivative of Lucius), borne by a number of minor early Christian martyrs. In the form Loukianos it is also found as a Greek family name.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Luciano 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 Luciano is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#117309,0171 in 685337KLuciano238
AR Argentina#151≈100,000 est.≈1 in 4502.1KLuciano181
IT Italy#121≈92,000 est.≈1 in 679106Luciano192
PH Philippines—≈18,000 est.≈1 in 6.1K—Luciano39
US United States—16,0691 in 21K16KLuciano289
AO Angola#65≈12,000 est.≈1 in 2.8K—Luciano35
PY Paraguay#182≈6,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Luciano32
UY Uruguay#76≈4,800 est.≈1 in 710—Luciano68

309,017 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)

Luciano is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Lucíano, Lüciáno, Lucianò, Lúcíánó, Luçiano

  • French given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Italy, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Luçiano, Lucianô, Lùciano, Lucìanò, Ļuciano

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Lucianò

  • Lao given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, United States, Italy

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written ลูเซียโน, ลูเซียโน่, Lùcìànò, Lúcíáno, Lúcïânö

  • Indonesian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Indonesia, Philippines, Peru

    Also written Ĺuciano

  • Croatian given name24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Italy, United States, Spain

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Lučano, Lučiano, Lućano, Lucano, Лучано

  • Danish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Italy, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Lúcíáno

69 further groups 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)

Luciano is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • From Latin. See LUCIEN in French supplement. Feminine form: Luciana.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Spanish, Latín Lucianus, patronímico de Lucius/Lucio.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • In Italian, forma italiana de Lucianus; v. Luciani

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • Discendente di Lucio

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

  • In Italian, Variante di Luciani

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

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)

1920194019601980Luciano Salce, b. 1922Luciano Berio, b. 1925Luciano Vincenzoni, b. 1926Luciano Martino, b. 1933Luciano Tovoli, b. 1936Luciano Spalletti, b. 1959Luciano Ligabue, b. 1960Eros Ramazzotti, b. 1963Luciano Floridi, b. 1964Luciano Galletti, b. 1980

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 106 sources across 53 countries.

Official registers attesting Luciano
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—337K#142
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022309K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—307K#92
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202016K#1,823
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.6K#92
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20201.4K—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20241.2K#127
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20251.1K—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)2015416—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)2015415—
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)2024106#177
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202078#1,823

Reference works 7

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

Where does the name Luciano come from?
from the personal name Luciano, Latin Lucianus (adjectival derivative of Lucius), borne by a number of minor early Christian martyrs. In the form Loukianos it is also found as a Greek family name. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
What does the name Luciano mean?
Recorded meaning: from the personal name Luciano, Latin Lucianus (adjectival derivative of Lucius), borne by a number of minor early Christian martyrs.
In which country does Luciano have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 309 thousand people named Luciano, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled luciano.
What are other forms of the name Luciano?
In the etymology graph, Lucien, Lucian and Lucjan are forms of the same name in other languages.
Is Luciano a male or female name?
Luciano is a male 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.
How common is the name Luciano?
In Brazil, the national register counted 309,017 people named Luciano in 2022, about 1 in 685 residents.
How common is Luciano compared with other names?
In Brazil, Luciano is the 117th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.

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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, “Luciano” — the 117th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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