In 2025, 8 US girls were named Lucretia, making it the 11,518th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #207, reached in 1882. The most girls given the name in a single year was 190, in 1974. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #744 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lucretia in 136 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 29 babies. In all, 10,430 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,568 babies named Lucretia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 26 US girls were named Lucretia; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 8. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Lucrezia and Lucritia are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Creasey.
Meaning
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.