Lucretius

given name · Latin script

Meaning: A male given name from Latin of mostly historical use in English

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

/ʎʉːcɹiːʃəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 540K(measured from records)
  • SGSingapore≈1 in 1.7M
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 7.8M

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.

Netherlands (measured from records)

32 people

Sources
17 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 540K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

A male given name from Latin of mostly historical use in English.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lucretius 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 Lucretius is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands321 in 540K32—1
US United States≈8 est.≈1 in 44M—Lucretius17
ZA South Africa≈7 est.≈1 in 7.8M—Lucretius2
SG Singapore≈4 est.≈1 in 1.7M—Lucretius3
ES Spain——listed——

32 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the becker-nombres-persona-2004 register. 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)

Lucretius is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Лукреций

26 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)

Lucretius is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Roman philosopher

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, Latin; gain. An early Roman poet.

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  • In Latin, a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:

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

  • ⇒ Lucretius Carus, Titus.

    as a word국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)

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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Lucretius
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—32#8,772
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—11#27,267
ES SpainNombres de Persona en Español (Becker, 2004)———

Reference works 2

  • 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

What does the name Lucretius mean, and where does it come from?
A male given name from Latin of mostly historical use in English. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Lucretius?
In the etymology graph, Lukrecjusz is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Lucretius?
A machine transcription gives /ʎʉːcɹiːʃəs/ (IPA) for English.
Is Lucretius a male or female name?
Lucretius 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.
In which country does Lucretius have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 32 people named Lucretius, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Lucretius most common?
Lucretius is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 540 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Lucretius?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 32 people named Lucretius, about 1 in 540 thousand residents.

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

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