Lucifer

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: The planet Venus as the daystar (the morning star)

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

Lucifer is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 89K(measured from records)
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 96K
  • NONorway≈1 in 719K

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.

Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,400 people, est.

Sources
90 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 89K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

The planet Venus as the daystar (the morning star).

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

How Lucifer is read(measured from records)

Lucifer is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English51%

    The planet Venus as the daystar (the morning star).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Satan; planet Venus when a morning

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

    star

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • Chinese9.6%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Lucifer in Chinese.

  • Spanish7.9%

    Latín lucifer 'portador de luz', de lux 'luz' + ferre 'llevar'.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lucifer 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 Lucifer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan≈2,400 est.≈1 in 96K—Lucifer2
CN China≈840 est.≈1 in 1.7M—Lucifer11
SE Sweden1151 in 89K115—5
US United States≈72 est.≈1 in 4.6M22Lucifer90
IT Italy≈34 est.≈1 in 1.8M1—6
NO Norway≈8 est.≈1 in 719K50—3
FI Finland51 in 1.1M25—1
GY Guyana11 in 750K1—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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)

Lucifer is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Brazil, India

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Lücifer, Lúcifer, Lucîfer, Lùcifer

  • French given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Lucîfer, Lucifèr, Lučįfer, Lüčifêr, Lucifër

  • Swedish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden

    Also written Lüçífèr, Lûcįfęř

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Russia

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Lúçîfêr, Lúçìfér

35 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)

Lucifer is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In enm, Satan; the Devil; the supreme Christian figure of evil.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Dutch, Lucifer (mythological fallen angel)

    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)

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 19 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Lucifer
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—115#7,760
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202170—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202260—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202056—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—50#11,936
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202448—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201947—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202344—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201826—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—25#17,992
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—25#17,251
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201724—

Reference works 1

  • 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

What does the name Lucifer mean, and where does it come from?
The planet Venus as the daystar (the morning star). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Lucifer a male or female name?
Lucifer 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 Lucifer?
In Sweden, the national register counted 115 people named Lucifer, about 1 in 89 thousand residents.
In which country does Lucifer have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Lucifer in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lucifer.
Where is Lucifer most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lucifer is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 89 thousand people — even though Pakistan holds more of our records for it.

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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, “Lucifer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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