Lucette
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lucette is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Female form from Latin lux, 'light'; variant of Luc.
- FRFrance≈1 in 5.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 544K
- GPGuadeloupe≈1 in 8.8K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 224 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Female form from Latin lux, 'light'; variant of Luc. Saint/name-day not given on this page.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lucette 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #635 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | 70K | Lucette | 224 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 56K | listed | Lucette | 7 |
| US United States | — | 611 | 1 in 544K | 610 | Lucette | 107 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 75K | 1 | Lucette | 46 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Lucette | 3 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 6 | Lucette | 22 |
| GP Guadeloupe | — | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | 5 | — | 4 |
| MQ Martinique | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 10 | — | 1 |
| GF French Guiana | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 5 | — | 1 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 973 (French Guiana); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe). 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)
Lucette 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 French, Diminutive of Luc, from Latin lux « light ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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)
- Madeleine Lucette Ryleyb. 1858GBEnglish actress, playwright (1858-1934)
- Lucette Descavesb. 1906FRFrench pianist (1906-1993)
- Lucette Finasb. 1921FRFrench author and essayist
- Lucette Desvignesb. 1926FRFrench writer and literary scholar
- Lucette Michaux-Chevryb. 1929FRFrench politician (1929-2021)
- Luce Boulnoisb. 1931FRnot in their usual nameFrench historian (1931-2009)
- Lucette Valensib. 1936FRFrench historian
- Anita DeFrantzb. 1952USnot in their usual nameAmerican rower
- Lucette Lagnadob. 1956USAmerican journalist (1956–2019)
- Lucette Rådströmb. 1974SESwedish journalist
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 35 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 31 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Lucette come from?
- Female form from Latin lux, 'light'; variant of Luc. Saint/name-day not given on this page. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- What does the name Lucette mean?
- Recorded meaning: Female form from Latin lux, 'light'; variant of Luc.
- Is Lucette a male or female name?
- Lucette 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.
- What are other forms of the name Lucette?
- In the etymology graph, Lucia, Luz and Cindy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Lucette have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Lucette in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lucette.
- How common is the name Lucette?
- In the United States, the national register counted 611 people named Lucette in 2020, about 1 in 544 thousand residents.
- How common is Lucette compared with other names?
- In France, Lucette is the 635th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lucette?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lucetteThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Lucette” — the 635th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.