Lucija

given name · Latin script

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

Lucija is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 67th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 253(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 526
  • LVLatvia1 in 1.6K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lucija itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Croatia (measured from records)

16,727 people, 2021

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
106 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 253 (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LucijaLatin(measured from records)
ЛуцијаCyrillic(measured from records)

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lucija 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 Lucija is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia#6716,7271 in 25319KLucija106
SI Slovenia#854,0001 in 5264.1KLucija43
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#412≈1,300 est.≈1 in 2.9K39Lucija16
LV Latvia—1,1441 in 1.6K1.1KLucija9
DE Germany—≈470 est.≈1 in 170K1Lucija62
MK North Macedonia—170as Луција1 in 13K170—4

16,727 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; the ba-fzs-newborn-names register; State Statistical Office — living population names. 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)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Lūcija

  • Lithuanian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania, Latvia, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

    Also written Lūcija, Lučija

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Slovenia, United States

    Also written Lūcija

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Lücija, Lūcija

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Lūcija

  • Czech given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Lucíja, Lučija, Lūcija

  • Russian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Lūcija

27 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)

Lucija 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 Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

0500100015002000Lucia, b. 283Lucy Maud Montgomery, b. 1874Kate Jackson, b. 1948Nigella Lawson, b. 1960Lucy Lawless, b. 1968Lucy Liu, b. 1968Lucy Hawking, b. 1969Charlotte Gainsbourg, b. 1971Lucy Punch, b. 1977Ophelia Lovibond, b. 1986
  • Luciab. 283ITnot in their usual namesaint from Italy
  • Lucy Maud Montgomeryb. 1874CAnot in their usual nameCanadian writer (1874–1942)
  • Kate Jacksonb. 1948USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, producer, and director (born 1948)
  • Nigella Lawsonb. 1960GBnot in their usual nameEnglish food writer and television cook (born 1960)
  • Lucy Lawlessb. 1968NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand actress
  • Lucy Liub. 1968USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1968)
  • Lucy Hawkingb. 1969GBnot in their usual nameEnglish journalist and novelist
  • Charlotte Gainsbourgb. 1971GBnot in their usual nameFrench and British actress and singer (born 1971)
  • Lucy Punchb. 1977GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress
  • Ophelia Lovibondb. 1986GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actress (born 1986)

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 43 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Lucija
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202119K—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202117K#52
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—4.1K#132
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20254K#69
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20244K#69
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20233.9K#71
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20223.9K#69
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20213.9K#70
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20203.8K#71
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20193.8K#73
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20183.7K#75
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20173.7K#76

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

Is Lucija a male or female name?
Lucija 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.
In which country does Lucija have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Lucija, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lucija.
Where is Lucija most common?
Lucija is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 253 people carrying it.
How common is the name Lucija?
In Croatia, the national register counted 16,727 people named Lucija in 2021, about 1 in 253 residents.
How common is Lucija compared with other names?
In Croatia, Lucija is the 67th most common given name of 14,066 given names recorded there.
What are other forms of the name Lucija?
In the etymology graph, Lucia, Luz and Cindy are forms of the same name in other languages.

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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, “Lucija” — the 67th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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