Lucilla
given name · Latin script
Meaning: weibl. Vom., der auf einen römischen
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʎʉsɪlə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lucilla is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 372K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 664K
- ITItaly≈1 in 16K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 164 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
weibl. Vom., der auf einen römischen
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Lucilla, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lucilla 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 32 | Lucilla | 54 |
| US United States | 893 | 1 in 372K | 892 | Lucilla | 164 |
| PH Philippines | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 255K | — | Lucilla | 20 |
| BR Brazil | 319 | 1 in 664K | 361 | Lucilla | 53 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 269K | listed | Lucilla | 65 |
| NL Netherlands | 113 | 1 in 153K | 113 | Lucilla | 9 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Lucilla | 7 |
| NI Nicaragua | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 149K | — | Lucilla | 5 |
| GY Guyana | 7 | 1 in 107K | 7 | — | 2 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); the penguin-baby-names-2009 register; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Lucilla 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.
Latin pet form of LUCIA , with the diminutive feminine suffix - illa . This name was borne by various minor early saints, including one martyred at Rome in c. 258.
as a word
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)
- Lucilla Marianib. 1902ITItalian librarian (1902-1972)
- Lucilla Andrewsb. 1919GBBritish writer
- Lucilla Morlacchib. 1936ITItalian actress
- Lucilla Yu Mingb. 1936GBHong Kong actress (1936-1996)
- Lucilla Perrottab. 1975ITfemale professional beach volleyball player from Italy
- Lucilla Agostib. 1978ITItalian radio and television presenter and actress (1978)
- Lucilla Wrightb. 1979GBEnglish field hockey player
- Birdyb. 1996GBnot in their usual nameBritish singer
- Lucilla Boarib. 1997ITItalian archer
- Lucilla PostonGBBritish physiologist
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 47 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 892 | #13,493 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 361 | #9,327 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 331 | #18,573 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 319 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 318 | #18,217 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 292 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 266 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 213 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 187 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 146 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 113 | #5,154 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1930 | 78 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Lucilla mean, and where does it come from?
- weibl. Vom., der auf einen römischen Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
- What are other forms of the name Lucilla?
- In the etymology graph, Lucia, Luz and Cindy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Lucilla?
- A machine transcription gives /ʎʉsɪlə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Lucilla a male or female name?
- Lucilla 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 Lucilla have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 thousand people named Lucilla in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lucilla.
- How common is the name Lucilla?
- In the United States, the national register counted 893 people named Lucilla in 2020, about 1 in 372 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lucilla?
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/lucillaThe 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, “Lucilla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.