Meaning not yet researched.
Lucius: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 189 in 2025. Its best rank was #259 in 1881.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #259 in 1881; #1,129 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lucius in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,129 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #259.
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Lucius: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 189 boys in 2025. Peak: #259 in 1881 · most boys in one year: 189 (2025).
In 2025, 189 US boys were named Lucius, making it the 1,129th most common boys’ name of the year, up 264 places from #1,393 in 2024. That is 54 more than the 135 boys named Lucius in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #259, reached in 1881. The most boys given the name in a single year was 189, in 2025. For comparison, it was #1,300 in 2015 and #786 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lucius in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 38 babies with the name. In all, 10,108 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,314 babies named Lucius.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,483 US boys were named Lucius; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 189. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,037 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lucius ranked highest in Iowa in 2025, at #638 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lucas (331,628 babies since 1880), Luke (323,585 babies since 1880), Luca (79,211 babies since 1880) and Lukas (44,072 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lucias, Luscious and Lucis 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: Lucias (17), Luscious (6), Lucis (5).
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 Lucius in the open dataset we use.
Lucius is listed as a nickname for Lucia.
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 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 5 | #638 | — |
| Kansas | 5 | #665 | — |
| Washington | 9 | #712 | #816 |
| Florida | 18 | #834 | — |
| California | 26 | #896 | #1,423 |
| Colorado | 5 | #920 | #752 |
| Michigan | 7 | #964 | #1,186 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #999 | #995 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,099 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,124 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,193 | #1,080 |
| New York | 9 | #1,256 | #1,208 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,357 | #831 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,399 | #1,243 |
| Texas | 12 | #1,527 | #1,272 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 189 | #1,129 |
| 2024 | — | — | 135 | #1,393 |
| 2023 | — | — | 154 | #1,255 |
| 2022 | — | — | 161 | #1,224 |
| 2021 | — | — | 134 | #1,375 |
| 2020 | — | — | 154 | #1,224 |
| 2019 | — | — | 144 | #1,291 |
| 2018 | — | — | 128 | #1,379 |
| 2017 | — | — | 124 | #1,411 |
| 2016 | — | — | 160 | #1,190 |
| 2015 | — | — | 137 | #1,300 |
| 2014 | — | — | 122 | #1,394 |
| 2013 | — | — | 125 | #1,360 |
| 2012 | — | — | 118 | #1,414 |
| 2011 | — | — | 127 | #1,340 |
| 2010 | — | — | 129 | #1,330 |
| 2009 | — | — | 130 | #1,338 |
| 2008 | — | — | 127 | #1,353 |
| 2007 | — | — | 140 | #1,260 |
| 2006 | — | — | 136 | #1,234 |
| 2005 | — | — | 109 | #1,378 |
| 2004 | — | — | 70 | #1,795 |
| 2003 | — | — | 48 | #2,255 |
| 2002 | — | — | 51 | #2,113 |
| 2001 | — | — | 47 | #2,208 |
| 2000 | — | — | 28 | #3,123 |
| 1999 | — | — | 18 | #4,094 |
| 1998 | — | — | 24 | #3,257 |
| 1997 | — | — | 21 | #3,416 |
| 1996 | — | — | 35 | #2,318 |
| 1995 | — | — | 14 | #4,424 |
| 1994 | — | — | 20 | #3,416 |
| 1993 | — | — | 28 | #2,623 |
| 1992 | — | — | 27 | #2,645 |
| 1991 | — | — | 28 | #2,514 |
| 1990 | — | — | 33 | #2,196 |
| 1989 | — | — | 34 | #2,093 |
| 1988 | — | — | 33 | #1,976 |
| 1987 | — | — | 30 | #2,042 |
| 1986 | — | — | 24 | #2,335 |
| 1985 | — | — | 30 | #1,950 |
| 1984 | — | — | 32 | #1,785 |
| 1983 | — | — | 40 | #1,524 |
| 1982 | — | — | 39 | #1,580 |
| 1981 | — | — | 46 | #1,406 |
| 1980 | — | — | 46 | #1,402 |
| 1979 | — | — | 48 | #1,346 |
| 1978 | — | — | 49 | #1,294 |
| 1977 | — | — | 34 | #1,630 |
| 1976 | — | — | 46 | #1,309 |
| 1975 | — | — | 34 | #1,551 |
| 1974 | — | — | 33 | #1,537 |
| 1973 | — | — | 43 | #1,261 |
| 1972 | — | — | 39 | #1,356 |
| 1971 | — | — | 46 | #1,229 |
| 1970 | — | — | 41 | #1,309 |
| 1969 | — | — | 41 | #1,244 |
| 1968 | — | — | 59 | #951 |
| 1967 | — | — | 56 | #977 |
| 1966 | — | — | 49 | #1,052 |
| 1965 | — | — | 44 | #1,135 |
| 1964 | — | — | 46 | #1,137 |
| 1963 | — | — | 51 | #1,073 |
| 1962 | — | — | 47 | #1,131 |
| 1961 | — | — | 61 | #997 |
| 1960 | — | — | 59 | #1,003 |
| 1959 | — | — | 68 | #936 |
| 1958 | — | — | 61 | #975 |
| 1957 | — | — | 76 | #869 |
| 1956 | — | — | 72 | #887 |
| 1955 | — | — | 68 | #904 |
| 1954 | — | — | 60 | #960 |
| 1953 | — | — | 83 | #783 |
| 1952 | — | — | 76 | #807 |
| 1951 | — | — | 97 | #705 |
| 1950 | — | — | 76 | #786 |
| 1949 | — | — | 87 | #740 |
| 1948 | — | — | 90 | #707 |
| 1947 | — | — | 81 | #767 |
| 1946 | — | — | 71 | #789 |
| 1945 | — | — | 73 | #715 |
| 1944 | — | — | 60 | #812 |
| 1943 | — | — | 105 | #618 |
| 1942 | — | — | 62 | #829 |
| 1941 | — | — | 78 | #699 |
| 1940 | — | — | 70 | #734 |
| 1939 | — | — | 85 | #644 |
| 1938 | — | — | 94 | #614 |
| 1937 | — | — | 81 | #662 |
| 1936 | — | — | 63 | #770 |
| 1935 | — | — | 72 | #721 |
| 1934 | — | — | 66 | #759 |
| 1933 | — | — | 78 | #665 |
| 1932 | — | — | 105 | #580 |
| 1931 | — | — | 70 | #737 |
| 1930 | — | — | 85 | #679 |
| 1929 | — | — | 80 | #694 |
| 1928 | — | — | 97 | #625 |
| 1927 | — | — | 118 | #568 |
| 1926 | — | — | 118 | #569 |
| 1925 | — | — | 101 | #634 |
| 1924 | — | — | 118 | #587 |
| 1923 | — | — | 106 | #618 |
| 1922 | — | — | 132 | #548 |
| 1921 | — | — | 134 | #540 |
| 1920 | — | — | 138 | #522 |
| 1919 | — | — | 142 | #499 |
| 1918 | — | — | 135 | #517 |
| 1917 | — | — | 111 | #560 |
| 1916 | — | — | 151 | #463 |
| 1915 | — | — | 119 | #510 |
| 1914 | — | — | 105 | #474 |
| 1913 | — | — | 90 | #457 |
| 1912 | — | — | 91 | #406 |
| 1911 | — | — | 37 | #487 |
| 1910 | — | — | 48 | #372 |
| 1909 | — | — | 43 | #361 |
| 1908 | — | — | 34 | #410 |
| 1907 | — | — | 40 | #345 |
| 1906 | — | — | 36 | #349 |
| 1905 | — | — | 37 | #334 |
| 1904 | — | — | 30 | #374 |
| 1903 | — | — | 25 | #396 |
| 1902 | — | — | 36 | #327 |
| 1901 | — | — | 30 | #330 |
| 1900 | — | — | 40 | #347 |
| 1899 | — | — | 27 | #349 |
| 1898 | — | — | 28 | #371 |
| 1897 | — | — | 37 | #304 |
| 1896 | — | — | 27 | #377 |
| 1895 | — | — | 28 | #354 |
| 1894 | — | — | 30 | #327 |
| 1893 | — | — | 29 | #327 |
| 1892 | — | — | 34 | #319 |
| 1891 | — | — | 21 | #383 |
| 1890 | — | — | 30 | #318 |
| 1889 | — | — | 26 | #349 |
| 1888 | — | — | 34 | #310 |
| 1887 | — | — | 24 | #337 |
| 1886 | — | — | 30 | #316 |
| 1885 | — | — | 39 | #267 |
| 1884 | — | — | 31 | #316 |
| 1883 | — | — | 25 | #335 |
| 1882 | — | — | 42 | #266 |
| 1881 | — | — | 38 | #259 |
| 1880 | — | — | 38 | #274 |
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).