Meaning not yet researched.
Lucus: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,075 in 1980.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,075 in 1980; #7,482 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lucus in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,482 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1980, at #1,075.
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Lucus: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,075 in 1980 · most boys in one year: 71 (1980).
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Lucus, making it the 7,482nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 3,090 places from #4,392 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 24 boys named Lucus in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,075, reached in 1980. That year also had the most boys given the name: 71. For comparison, it was #3,944 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lucus in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1909 with 5 babies. In all, 1,800 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 424 babies named Lucus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 175 US boys were named Lucus; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 155,280 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lucas (331,628 babies since 1880) and Lukas (44,072 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Lucus in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 11 | #7,482 |
| 2024 | — | — | 24 | #4,392 |
| 2023 | — | — | 13 | #6,756 |
| 2022 | — | — | 11 | #7,556 |
| 2021 | — | — | 12 | #6,947 |
| 2020 | — | — | 11 | #7,311 |
| 2019 | — | — | 21 | #4,736 |
| 2018 | — | — | 19 | #5,033 |
| 2017 | — | — | 28 | #3,853 |
| 2016 | — | — | 25 | #4,159 |
| 2015 | — | — | 27 | #3,944 |
| 2014 | — | — | 43 | #2,784 |
| 2013 | — | — | 34 | #3,243 |
| 2012 | — | — | 41 | #2,893 |
| 2011 | — | — | 29 | #3,664 |
| 2010 | — | — | 52 | #2,422 |
| 2009 | — | — | 51 | #2,507 |
| 2008 | — | — | 49 | #2,569 |
| 2007 | — | — | 49 | #2,552 |
| 2006 | — | — | 42 | #2,775 |
| 2005 | — | — | 39 | #2,786 |
| 2004 | — | — | 55 | #2,151 |
| 2003 | — | — | 34 | #2,898 |
| 2002 | — | — | 31 | #2,991 |
| 2001 | — | — | 30 | #3,035 |
| 2000 | — | — | 44 | #2,239 |
| 1999 | — | — | 25 | #3,244 |
| 1998 | — | — | 42 | #2,183 |
| 1997 | — | — | 47 | #1,947 |
| 1996 | — | — | 34 | #2,362 |
| 1995 | — | — | 46 | #1,876 |
| 1994 | — | — | 38 | #2,154 |
| 1993 | — | — | 40 | #2,034 |
| 1992 | — | — | 35 | #2,202 |
| 1991 | — | — | 28 | #2,515 |
| 1990 | — | — | 31 | #2,294 |
| 1989 | — | — | 26 | #2,520 |
| 1988 | — | — | 22 | #2,657 |
| 1987 | — | — | 22 | #2,524 |
| 1986 | — | — | 33 | #1,865 |
| 1985 | — | — | 31 | #1,899 |
| 1984 | — | — | 45 | #1,436 |
| 1983 | — | — | 33 | #1,737 |
| 1982 | — | — | 44 | #1,458 |
| 1981 | — | — | 61 | #1,183 |
| 1980 | — | — | 71 | #1,075 |
| 1979 | — | — | 62 | #1,146 |
| 1978 | — | — | 54 | #1,221 |
| 1977 | — | — | 23 | #2,104 |
| 1976 | — | — | 15 | #2,772 |
| 1975 | — | — | 12 | #3,173 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,691 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #3,929 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,780 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,509 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,616 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,497 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,632 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,694 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,729 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,606 |
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).