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Lucius

boy name
Origin
Latin
Syllables
2
Peak era
1890s/2020s
Today
▬ Steady

Meaning

light

Lucius 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

LuciusLatinLucyEnglishLucieFrenchLucilleFrenchLucianEnglishLucienFrenchLucianoItalianLucioSpanish

More branches

LucileFrench · variantLucindaEnglish · related form

Popularity, 1890–2024

peak 1890s2020s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Lucius peaked in the 1890s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure.

See popularity in Brazil

Popularity in Brazil

421 people · the #15,051 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 500,000 · median age 16

1970s1980s1990s2000s2010s

Among people named Lucius living in Brazil at the 2022 census, roughly as many were born in the 2000s as in the 2010s, more than in any other decade.

The census also counted 43 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.

Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022

Names that fit alongside Lucius

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