Lucila
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Latín Lucilla, diminutivo de Lucio
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lusila/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lucila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 940(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 2.3K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 2.7K
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 278 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 940 (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latín Lucilla, diminutivo de Lucio.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lucila 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #193 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 940 | — | Lucila | 59 |
| PH Philippines | #671 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 20K | Lucila | 53 |
| AR Argentina | #384 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 154 | Lucila | 127 |
| CO Colombia | #439 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 5 | Lucila | 73 |
| BR Brazil | — | 11,170 | 1 in 19K | 14K | Lucila | 113 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Lucila | 27 |
| SV El Salvador | #360 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Lucila | 18 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 1,065 | 1 in 3.2K | 1.1K | — | 37 |
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 — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Lucila Gamero Medinab. 1873HNHonduran writer (1873-1964)
- Lucila Luciani de Pérez Díazb. 1882VEVenezuelan historian, musician and feminist (1882–1971)
- Gabriela Mistralb. 1889CLnot in their usual nameChilean poet, diplomat and educator (1889–1957)
- Lucha Reyesb. 1936PEnot in their usual namePeruvian singer (1936–1973)
- Lucila Corralb. 1947ESSpanish politician
- Lucila Toledo Morenob. 1950ESSpanish politician
- Lucila Gandolfob. 1966ARArgentinian actor
- Lucila Soláb. 1976ARArgentine actress
- Rebeca Escribensb. 1977PEnot in their usual namePeruvian actress
- Lucila Pascuab. 1983ESSpanish basketball player (born 1983)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 48 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 14K | #1,752 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 14K | #736 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 11K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 11K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 11K | #1,577 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 11K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 10K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 9.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 8.3K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.1K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 154 | #602 |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Lucila mean, and where does it come from?
- Latín Lucilla, diminutivo de Lucio. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Lucila?
- A machine transcription gives /lusila/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Lucila a male or female name?
- Lucila 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 Lucila?
- In the etymology graph, Lucia, Cindy and Lucy are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Lucía.
- In which country does Lucila have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named Lucila in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lucila.
- How common is the name Lucila?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 11,170 people named Lucila in 2022, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Lucila compared with other names?
- In Peru, Lucila is the 193rd most common given name of 254,284 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lucila?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lucilaThe 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, “Lucila” — the 193rd most common given name in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.