Lucania
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Mount. Canada
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lucania is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 199K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 910K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- 1 in 199K (inferred from the name graph)
149 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lucanie in US United States.
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)
Mount. Canada
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lucania 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 149 | 1 in 2.2M | 165 | Lucanie | 8 |
| BR Brazil | 87 | 1 in 2.4M | 87 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 59 | 1 in 199K | 59 | — | 6 |
| AR Argentina | 50 | 1 in 910K | 50 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 8 | 1 in 6.3M | 8 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 1 |
149 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling lucania. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lucky Lucianeb. 1897ITnot in their usual nameItalian American mobster (1897–1962)
- Charles Peter Lucaniab. 1966USAmerican electrician (1966-2001), victim of the September 11 attacks
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 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 165 | #113,026 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 152 | #108,153 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 149 | #116,829 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 87 | #70,261 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 59 | #23,200 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 50 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- What does the name Lucania mean, and where does it come from?
- Mount. Canada Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Lucania have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 149 people named Lucania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lucanie.
- Where is Lucania most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lucania is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 199 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lucania?
- In the United States, the national register counted 149 people named Lucania in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Lucania?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lucaniaThe 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, “Lucania”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.