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Lucile

girl name
Origin
French
Syllables
2
Peak era
1890s/1920s
Today
▬ Steady

Meaning

variant of Lucille, 'light'

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Lucile around the world

One shared root links 10 names across 5 languages.

Shared root: from Latin lux "light", through the Roman Lucius and its feminine Lucia

The constellation

LucileFrench · variantLucyEnglishLucieFrenchLucilleFrenchLuciusLatinLucianEnglishLucienFrenchLucianoItalianLucioSpanish

More branches

LucindaEnglish · related form

Popularity, 1890–2024

peak 1890s2020s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Lucile peaked in the 1890s and the 1920s in nearly equal measure.

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Popularity in Brazil

366 people · the #16,577 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 500,000 · median age 44

1950s1960s1970s1980s1990s2000s

Among people named Lucile living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1970s than in any other decade.

Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022

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The Lucile deep dive

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