In 2025, 25 US boys were named Lucious, making it the 4,207th most common boys’ name of the year, down 54 places from #4,153 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 26 boys named Lucious in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #408, reached in 1884. The most boys given the name in a single year was 76, in 1926. For comparison, it was #3,129 in 2015 and #889 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lucious in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 10 babies. In all, 4,836 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 643 babies named Lucious.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 337 US boys were named Lucious; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 53. In 2025 that was about 1 in 68,323 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lucius (10,108 babies since 1880).