Meaning not yet researched.
Lucian: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 670 in 2025. Its best rank was #292 in 1881.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #292 in 1881; #462 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lucian in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#462 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #292.
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Lucian: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 670 boys in 2025. Peak: #292 in 1881 · most boys in one year: 670 (2025).
In 2025, 670 US boys were named Lucian, making it the 462nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 25 places from #487 in 2024. That is 35 more than the 635 boys named Lucian in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #292, reached in 1881. The most boys given the name in a single year was 670, in 2025. For comparison, it was #633 in 2015 and #1,213 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lucian in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 18 babies with the name. In all, 14,501 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,254 babies named Lucian.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,042 US boys were named Lucian; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 670. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,549 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lucian ranked highest in Oregon in 2025, at #213 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lucien (9,998 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lucine, Lucianne and Lucyann 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lucine (362), Lucianne (266), Lucyann (184), Lucion (120), Luciann (59), Luzian (6).
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 Lucian in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 18 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 20 | #213 | #445 |
| New Mexico | 8 | #257 | — |
| Oklahoma | 14 | #344 | #676 |
| Washington | 22 | #345 | #486 |
| Florida | 54 | #364 | #714 |
| Massachusetts | 14 | #370 | — |
| Connecticut | 8 | #374 | — |
| California | 93 | #374 | #716 |
| New York | 43 | #401 | #523 |
| Idaho | 6 | #412 | — |
| Kentucky | 12 | #417 | #315 |
| Indiana | 17 | #425 | #561 |
| New Jersey | 18 | #439 | #644 |
| Minnesota | 13 | #441 | #680 |
| Arizona | 16 | #455 | #545 |
| Tennessee | 17 | #468 | #717 |
| Texas | 71 | #470 | #632 |
| Nevada | 6 | #492 | — |
| Michigan | 17 | #507 | #521 |
| Colorado | 11 | #521 | #621 |
| South Carolina | 9 | #534 | — |
| Utah | 8 | #538 | #537 |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | #541 | #427 |
| Virginia | 14 | #545 | #707 |
| North Carolina | 18 | #557 | #745 |
| Illinois | 17 | #560 | #693 |
| Ohio | 16 | #612 | #583 |
| Georgia | 17 | #612 | #1,326 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #660 | #579 |
| Kansas | 5 | #663 | #638 |
| Maryland | 7 | #669 | #679 |
| Missouri | 8 | #696 | #509 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #859 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 670 | #462 |
| 2024 | — | — | 635 | #487 |
| 2023 | — | — | 613 | #489 |
| 2022 | — | — | 543 | #547 |
| 2021 | — | — | 469 | #594 |
| 2020 | — | — | 421 | #636 |
| 2019 | — | — | 398 | #665 |
| 2018 | — | — | 396 | #648 |
| 2017 | — | — | 469 | #579 |
| 2016 | — | — | 428 | #626 |
| 2015 | — | — | 422 | #633 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,137 | 441 | #607 |
| 2013 | — | — | 393 | #626 |
| 2012 | — | — | 435 | #587 |
| 2011 | — | — | 419 | #596 |
| 2010 | — | — | 448 | #567 |
| 2009 | — | — | 426 | #607 |
| 2008 | — | — | 272 | #807 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,747 | 281 | #779 |
| 2006 | — | — | 249 | #818 |
| 2005 | — | — | 217 | #847 |
| 2004 | — | — | 142 | #1,120 |
| 2003 | — | — | 82 | #1,559 |
| 2002 | — | — | 73 | #1,644 |
| 2001 | — | — | 71 | #1,653 |
| 2000 | — | — | 60 | #1,810 |
| 1999 | — | — | 45 | #2,125 |
| 1998 | — | — | 41 | #2,224 |
| 1997 | — | — | 52 | #1,828 |
| 1996 | — | — | 34 | #2,361 |
| 1995 | — | — | 33 | #2,383 |
| 1994 | — | — | 32 | #2,430 |
| 1993 | — | — | 44 | #1,885 |
| 1992 | — | — | 24 | #2,890 |
| 1991 | — | — | 30 | #2,377 |
| 1990 | — | — | 37 | #2,034 |
| 1989 | — | — | 35 | #2,052 |
| 1988 | — | — | 34 | #1,936 |
| 1987 | — | — | 16 | #3,145 |
| 1986 | — | — | 25 | #2,264 |
| 1985 | — | — | 25 | #2,204 |
| 1984 | — | — | 28 | #1,958 |
| 1983 | — | — | 28 | #1,935 |
| 1982 | — | — | 37 | #1,634 |
| 1981 | — | — | 29 | #1,929 |
| 1980 | — | — | 43 | #1,458 |
| 1979 | — | — | 34 | #1,693 |
| 1978 | — | — | 33 | #1,680 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,555 | 31 | #1,728 |
| 1976 | — | — | 36 | #1,523 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,607 | 24 | #1,980 |
| 1974 | — | — | 16 | #2,519 |
| 1973 | — | — | 21 | #2,010 |
| 1972 | — | — | 27 | #1,707 |
| 1971 | — | — | 22 | #1,962 |
| 1970 | — | — | 28 | #1,644 |
| 1969 | — | — | 28 | #1,547 |
| 1968 | — | — | 22 | #1,715 |
| 1967 | — | — | 23 | #1,631 |
| 1966 | — | — | 21 | #1,706 |
| 1965 | — | — | 27 | #1,501 |
| 1964 | — | — | 37 | #1,301 |
| 1963 | — | — | 36 | #1,314 |
| 1962 | — | — | 22 | #1,738 |
| 1961 | — | — | 35 | #1,364 |
| 1960 | — | — | 49 | #1,128 |
| 1959 | — | — | 35 | #1,332 |
| 1958 | — | — | 32 | #1,388 |
| 1957 | — | — | 35 | #1,338 |
| 1956 | — | — | 37 | #1,274 |
| 1955 | — | — | 54 | #1,030 |
| 1954 | — | — | 42 | #1,160 |
| 1953 | — | — | 45 | #1,096 |
| 1952 | — | — | 67 | #857 |
| 1951 | — | — | 65 | #871 |
| 1950 | — | — | 36 | #1,213 |
| 1949 | — | — | 52 | #962 |
| 1948 | — | — | 40 | #1,137 |
| 1947 | — | — | 49 | #1,033 |
| 1946 | — | — | 49 | #959 |
| 1945 | — | — | 43 | #982 |
| 1944 | — | — | 63 | #793 |
| 1943 | — | — | 45 | #1,002 |
| 1942 | — | — | 60 | #846 |
| 1941 | — | — | 47 | #933 |
| 1940 | — | — | 42 | #1,002 |
| 1939 | — | — | 47 | #912 |
| 1938 | — | — | 51 | #875 |
| 1937 | — | — | 50 | #877 |
| 1936 | — | — | 47 | #903 |
| 1935 | — | — | 39 | #1,034 |
| 1934 | — | — | 52 | #873 |
| 1933 | — | — | 55 | #838 |
| 1932 | — | — | 57 | #847 |
| 1931 | — | — | 65 | #779 |
| 1930 | — | — | 83 | #688 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,991 | 69 | #778 |
| 1928 | — | — | 68 | #794 |
| 1927 | — | — | 90 | #681 |
| 1926 | — | — | 78 | #724 |
| 1925 | — | — | 101 | #633 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,548 | 104 | #631 |
| 1923 | — | — | 103 | #634 |
| 1922 | — | — | 123 | #579 |
| 1921 | — | — | 98 | #653 |
| 1920 | — | — | 123 | #556 |
| 1919 | — | — | 80 | #699 |
| 1918 | — | — | 102 | #609 |
| 1917 | — | — | 105 | #578 |
| 1916 | — | — | 121 | #518 |
| 1915 | — | — | 124 | #499 |
| 1914 | — | — | 80 | #559 |
| 1913 | — | — | 59 | #570 |
| 1912 | — | — | 49 | #577 |
| 1911 | — | — | 33 | #518 |
| 1910 | — | — | 17 | #744 |
| 1909 | — | — | 23 | #552 |
| 1908 | — | — | 21 | #560 |
| 1907 | — | — | 20 | #550 |
| 1906 | — | — | 11 | #789 |
| 1905 | — | — | 16 | #606 |
| 1904 | — | — | 13 | #671 |
| 1903 | — | — | 12 | #684 |
| 1902 | — | — | 13 | #637 |
| 1901 | — | — | 12 | #624 |
| 1900 | — | — | 21 | #522 |
| 1899 | — | — | 16 | #494 |
| 1898 | — | — | 20 | #464 |
| 1897 | — | — | 13 | #602 |
| 1896 | — | — | 19 | #473 |
| 1895 | — | — | 15 | #544 |
| 1894 | — | — | 17 | #491 |
| 1893 | — | — | 19 | #426 |
| 1892 | — | — | 17 | #490 |
| 1891 | — | — | 8 | #743 |
| 1890 | — | — | 16 | #474 |
| 1889 | — | — | 21 | #398 |
| 1888 | — | — | 26 | #365 |
| 1887 | — | — | 19 | #384 |
| 1886 | — | — | 18 | #423 |
| 1885 | — | — | 25 | #351 |
| 1884 | — | — | 20 | #407 |
| 1883 | — | — | 21 | #378 |
| 1882 | — | — | 21 | #396 |
| 1881 | — | — | 30 | #292 |
| 1880 | — | — | 18 | #416 |
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).