Meaning not yet researched.
Lucero: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 141 in 2025. Its best rank was #647 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #647 in 1994; #1,515 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Lucero in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,515 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #647.
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Lucero: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 141 girls in 2025. Peak: #647 in 1994 · most girls in one year: 334 (1994).
In 2025, 141 US girls were named Lucero, making it the 1,515th most common girls’ name of the year, up 156 places from #1,671 in 2024. That is 18 more than the 123 girls named Lucero in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #647, reached in 1994. That year also had the most girls given the name: 334. For comparison, it was #1,820 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lucero in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 5 babies. In all, 7,947 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 2.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,759 babies named Lucero.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,345 US girls were named Lucero; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 150. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,399 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lucero ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #910 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Lusero and Luzero are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lusero (132), Luzero (11).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Lucero in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 32 | #910 | #1,106 |
| Arizona | 6 | #988 | #918 |
| California | 26 | #1,040 | #1,075 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,376 | — |
| Florida | 10 | #1,392 | #1,995 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 141 | #1,515 | 6 | #11,475 |
| 2024 | 123 | #1,671 | — | — |
| 2023 | 150 | #1,468 | 11 | #7,559 |
| 2022 | 146 | #1,495 | — | — |
| 2021 | 127 | #1,646 | — | — |
| 2020 | 125 | #1,652 | 5 | #13,305 |
| 2019 | 119 | #1,742 | — | — |
| 2018 | 143 | #1,528 | 5 | #13,389 |
| 2017 | 137 | #1,598 | — | — |
| 2016 | 134 | #1,632 | — | — |
| 2015 | 115 | #1,820 | — | — |
| 2014 | 125 | #1,688 | — | — |
| 2013 | 166 | #1,395 | — | — |
| 2012 | 164 | #1,407 | — | — |
| 2011 | 197 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 2010 | 215 | #1,141 | 6 | #11,644 |
| 2009 | 249 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 2008 | 243 | #1,078 | 5 | #13,800 |
| 2007 | 284 | #957 | — | — |
| 2006 | 268 | #975 | 6 | #11,508 |
| 2005 | 254 | #968 | 11 | #6,918 |
| 2004 | 173 | #1,256 | 6 | #10,821 |
| 2003 | 195 | #1,129 | — | — |
| 2002 | 209 | #1,037 | — | — |
| 2001 | 186 | #1,129 | — | — |
| 2000 | 194 | #1,070 | 9 | #7,184 |
| 1999 | 192 | #1,056 | 7 | #8,381 |
| 1998 | 243 | #869 | 5 | #10,641 |
| 1997 | 236 | #867 | 10 | #5,921 |
| 1996 | 278 | #762 | 8 | #6,878 |
| 1995 | 282 | #727 | 14 | #4,423 |
| 1994 | 334 | #647 | 16 | #4,026 |
| 1993 | 313 | #691 | 20 | #3,324 |
| 1992 | 264 | #781 | 18 | #3,549 |
| 1991 | 266 | #774 | 21 | #3,069 |
| 1990 | 227 | #867 | 5 | #8,969 |
| 1989 | 114 | #1,353 | 11 | #4,698 |
| 1988 | 34 | #3,013 | — | — |
| 1987 | 48 | #2,255 | — | — |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,656 | 7 | #5,705 |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,341 | 6 | #6,229 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,475 | — | — |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,205 | — | — |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,457 | — | — |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,198 | — | — |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,080 | — | — |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,498 | — | — |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,855 | — | — |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,719 | — | — |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,494 | — | — |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,024 | — | — |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,590 | — | — |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,055 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,954 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,595 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,136 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,139 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).